More Gas Station Credit-Card Skimmers

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @08:51AM from the look-for-the-guy-with-the-blue-tooth dept.

coondoggie notes a Network World piece on credit-card skimmers found installed in gas pumps, this time in Florida. Like the similar wave of attacks in Utah earlier this year, the latest crop uses Bluetooth to transmit the illicitly collected data. Does this mean an accomplice has to hang around within 3m of the pump? "The Secret Service has indicated there's a crime wave throughout the Southeast involving the gas-station pump card skimmers, and it may be traced back to a single gang that may be working out of Miami... St. Johns County in Florida has also been hit by the gas-pump card skimmers. [A local sheriff's department spokesman] says criminals wanting to hide the credit-card skimmers in gas pumps have to have a key to the pump, but in some cases a single key will serve to get into many gas pumps." Here's an insight from the banking industry on the skimming fraud.

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Re:Doesnt sound overly hard to by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-13 09:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Hey now, don't insult gas station attendants. Some of them are Slashdot's most prolific posters. I think a couple are even editors here.
Re:Hiders Keepers? by Beardo+the+Bearded · 2010-07-13 10:36 · Score: 4, Funny

In England, it's always Albanians or Romanians. Counts, the lot of them.
FTFY

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Re:What a skimmer actually looks like by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-13 10:36 · Score: 1, Funny

The files are in the computer!