Card skimmersare gettingway more coarse , to the breaker point that they ’ve even started appearing onpoint - of - cut-rate sale plug-in machines . And , boy , if this matter is anything to go by , they ’re getting better and good .
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Krebs on Security has come acrossa “ remarkably elementary but brilliant POS skimming equipment ” that crooks can install and remove in seconds . The video recording above , produced by a fraudster who sell the devices , show his outfit being retrofit to a recent - modelling Verifone point - of - sale twist . The whole television go 25 second .
The piece of kit include a tiny battery and flashbulb storage card that “ allow the phoney PIN pad of paper to capture the cardinal presses , and record the data point store on the magnetic chevron of each swiped card . ” In other words , it can be installed super - quickly and rip all your details . It ’s a crooked stock assistants ambition come true .
So , the advice remains the same : if anything ever seem suspicious on a card machine , just do n’t use it . Simple as that . [ Krebs on Security ]
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