Tag: SKIMMING

South African crooks have recently focused their attention on Absa Bank, one of the African nation's largest financial institutions, by bombing several of the company's ATMs during the last year. In the Western Cape region, a popular tourist destination, authorities also claim to have identified approximately 40 data-stealing card-skimmers at various ATMs. To protect its machines -- and inflict ...

New Yorkers are once again the victims of an ATM-rigging spree that managed to steal more than $500,000 from hundreds of Staten Island residents. According to the Daily News, the thieves attached skimmers on card slots in ATMs at Sovereign Bank branches in the New York City borough. In addition to the scanned data, the criminals hid tiny cameras in the lighted ATM signs and used the cameras to ...

ATM card skimmers. We knew they were a terrifying technical possibility, but, until now, no one had ever found one in the wild. That is until a reader, known as Dan, e-mailed The Consumerist with the photo above and a tale about a suspicious-looking ATM at his local Washington Mutual branch. Dan noticed that something was a little off. The card slot didn't seem to be completely attached to the ...