Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17

Posted by kdawson on Sunday August 2, 2009 @10:22AM from the not-the-brightest-LED-in-the-flashlight dept.

Groo Wanderer writes "Normally, a well-crafted fake ATM would skim a lot of card information before it was noticed, if it was ever noticed at all. Because it is safer for the criminals and harder to prosecute, financial crimes like this are spreading fast. If you are smart, you don't try to pull one off in the middle of a computer security convention where the attendees are very good at spotting such scams. That said, some not-so-bright criminal tried to plant a fake ATM at Defcon. He now has one less fake ATM and a whole lot of investigators on his tail."

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Re:Pedant Warning! by phoenix_rizzen · 2009-08-02 11:54 · Score: 1, Offtopic

No, but one could use the much simpler "ATM" and "PIN". Everyone knows the former is a machine, and the latter is a number. To be most correct, and formal, one could even expand the abbreviation the first time it is used.