Ain't it amazing how much effort some people put into stealing from others?
There's a lot of scams surrounding ATMs - it has made some very distrusting
of them. Along with the scam you mention some thieves place saranwrap over
the opening somehow so the card will jam - until the customer goes away
frustrated and the criminal goes to the machine and withdraws the card
because he knows the secret. There's more to it because they were getting
the pin also but I don't recall how they did that.
All the new technology of the last 20 years has really opened a lot of doors
for criminals -
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From: "John M McIntosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fw: Alert on Critical Microsoft MessengerService
Vulnerability
Speaking of which they busted some folks here who had rigged up a
card reader that mounted in front of
the ATM slot, with a pinhole camera also mounted elsewhere with a
view of the keypad. Wireless too
so the folks were making cloned cards in real time so to speak. Only
got them because of the security cameras got
a good look at one of them as he was mounting the equipment.
On 11-Aug-06, at 11:31 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:
archer wrote:
I accidentally hit two keys on an ATM the other day and it
crashed. It
rebooted automatically as Windows XP. It was amazing that a bank
would use
Windows XP when it is the target of so many attacks.
John
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