More Gas Station Credit-Card Skimmers

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.

Comments

Re:No worries here.

[AnonymousClown]

And if the clerk pockets the cash and calls the cops on you to cover the theft?

Here's a 20 for pump #2. *pumps $20 worth of gas and takes off*.

Nah.

It won't happen.

Re:What a skimmer actually looks like

[Monkeedude1212]

attackers don't have access to the inside of a gas pump either.

They are both done by attaching items on the pump, just gas stations can only do credit cards (because there is no viable way to set up a camera to watch your pin).

Re:What a skimmer actually looks like

[Monkeedude1212]

Y'all got some religious prohibition about Reading The Fine Article

No, just usually too busy reading the rest of the articles on the net.

Re:ATM Skimmer

[maeka]

And as I am remembered every time I go there, the fact tipping is not common practice shows in the shitty service.