Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer

Bert64 writes "A chap at work was recently the victim of an ATM card skimmer which took his card details, cloned them and allowed the fraudster to take 550 pounds out of his account. Having tried to explain how the fraudsters can hide a camera and card reader around the ATM, he decided it would be easier to show one of them after a few drinks down the pub. He was a little surprised to find that the machine he chose had a card reader and camera in place. These were removed and analysed, we believe we have reclaimed about 800 pounds worth of kit. Result: Pictures."

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Re:550 Pounds of money?!?!?!?

[aweraw]

fancy metric system

OT but anyway...

I've never understood how the metric system can be thought of as fancy or tricky by most Americans. It's all base 10. 10 millimetres equals a centimetre, 100 centimetres equals a metre, therefore 1000 millimetres in a meter (milli meaning 1000), and 1000 meters in a kilometre. Simple. Imperial units are all over the damn place... 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile... conversions between different sized metric units is extremely easy compared to imperial.

Now my question is this.. how can the metric systems be seen as complicated when compared to the in consistent imperial system?