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Shield Yourself From Credit Card Skimmers
By Phil Villarreal on December 22, 2011 2:15 PM   16 Comments
Since you never know for sure whether or not there's a skimmer device on credit card readers you use, any swipe potentially puts you at risk of identity theft. The best you can do is to avoid explicitly dangerous situations. More »

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Card Skimmers At 23 California Supermarket Locations Steal Thousands Of Dollars From Customers
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 6, 2011 2:00 PM   33 Comments
A flood of residents in California are reporting thousands of dollars stolen from their bank accounts, after credit card skimming machines were found in the self-checkout lines of 23 Lucky Supermarkets stores. More »

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Customer Discovers Card Skimmer On Bank ATM
By Chris Morran on November 18, 2011 1:00 PM   67 Comments
When most of us think about illegal card skimmers on ATMs, we think of free-standing cash machines at convenience stores or on the street. But a sharp-eyed bank customer in Massachusetts spotted a skimmer at the last place you'd expect one: the bank. More »

Those Anti-Skimming Gas Pump Stickers Don't Work If You Do It Like This
By Chris Morran on October 11, 2011 1:15 PM   48 Comments
Last month, we wrote about the new-ish practice of slapping stickers on gas pumps to prevent credit card skimmers. But someone at this Shell station seemed to have missed the point of the sticker completely. More »

Shell Gas Station Uses Stickers To Prevent Credit Card Skimming
By Mary Beth Quirk on September 5, 2011 4:25 PM   79 Comments
As gas stations with pay-at-the pump, ATMs and other unattended machines where you scan your credit card get hit by skimmers tampering with their equipment, some businesses are taking preventative measures by way of a simple sticker. More »

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Check Out This Nearly Undetectable ATM Skimmer
By Ben Popken on August 18, 2011 2:00 PM   63 Comments
Reader Andrew noticed this picture of an an incredibly high-end professional ATM skimmer that is virtually undetectable. More »

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"I Don't Doubt It" Is BofA's Response To You Saying They Transferred You To Foot Fetish Phone Line
By Ben Popken on August 16, 2011 2:00 PM   52 Comments
When David tried to report some fraudulent activity on his debit card, Bank of America transferred his call to a 1-900 type phone line that specialized in feet-related activities. More »

Waitress Gets Revenge On Tough Customers By Skimming Their Credit Cards
By Chris Morran on August 16, 2011 1:15 PM   80 Comments
A waitress at a Port Richey, FL, restaurant was recently arrested for allegedly using a credit card skimmer to steal customers' information for the purposes of creating bogus cards. But, she tells the police, the customers she cheated were not nice to her anyway. More »

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By Laura Northrup on May 20, 2011 12:00 PM   123 Comments
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Skimmers Found Installed Inside Gas Pumps. Inside!
By Ben Popken on May 18, 2011 3:00 PM   55 Comments
If you're the type of person who already reflexively jiggles every card slot and looks for pinhole cameras whenever you go to swipe your card, despair. There is no 100% foolproof way to protect yourself, as proven by a pair of banditos who stole 3,600 card numbers after installing a credit card skimmer inside several gas pumps, reports the MountainView Voice. More »

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Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dead Anchovies Clog California Harbor
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 9, 2011 8:00 AM   16 Comments
A huge fish kill in King Harbor Marina near Redondo Beach, Calif. resulted in the water there was filled with hundreds of thousands of dead anchovies. Hours after the workers were still busy scooping out the stinky lil guys. More »

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Skimmer Uses Bank Door Swipe, Crooks Don't Even Touch ATM
By Ben Popken on January 31, 2011 4:00 PM   44 Comments
In a twist to the usual ATM skimmer scam, there's a new report from Krebs on Security about crooks who put the skimmer inside the bank door-lock. When you swipe your card to get inside, they grab your digits. A camera hidden behind a mirror above the ATM and pointed down at the keypad records your PIN code when you punch it in. More »

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Buy A Stolen Debit Card For $80
By Ben Popken on January 21, 2011 11:00 AM   31 Comments
Security firm Pandalabs investigated the online underworld's menu of services and has surveyed the going rates for various kinds of fraud. Stolen credit card numbers can be had for as little as $2, but these are like buying a mystery bag. Crooks don't know the cardholder's info and there's no assurance that it will actually work. So for $80 thieves will sell a debit card with a guaranteed (small) balance. To get access to a big balance of $82,000, that will run ya $700. More »

ATM Skim Scammers Steal Cards With Old Cassette Recorders
By Ben Popken on December 2, 2010 2:00 PM   28 Comments
Fraudsters are cracking open old handheld cassette recorders and using their components to build ATM skimmers that steal your credit card numbers. More »

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Debit Card Skimmer Found On Train Ticket Dispenser
By Ben Popken on September 15, 2010 3:00 PM   23 Comments
Be careful, travelers, skimmers aren't just for ATMs. Here's one a Dutch guy found on a local train ticket machine. This is even a little bit more insidious than an ATM skimmer because busy passengers are even less likely to hide their PIN or notice a skimming device before rushing to their next train. The site is in Dutch but just scroll through the labeled pictures. With phrases like "betterijen uit mobiele telefoon" it's pretty easy to figure out what he's talking about. More »

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Wendy's Employee Caught Using Credit Card Skimmer To Steal 135 Identities
By Chris Morran on July 29, 2010 3:15 PM   53 Comments
How many times have you handed over your credit card at a fast-food joint and never thought twice about the security of your identity? Here's some news that might give you pause — an employee at a Wendy's in Washington state has been charged with using a card skimmer to steal the identities of 135 customers and racking up around $75,000 in fraudulent charges on those accounts. More »

Costner's Waterworldian Devices To Clean Up BP Oil Spill
By Ben Popken on July 1, 2010 3:00 PM   58 Comments
From the fell through the cracks file, Kevin Costner is going to save us all from the BP oil spill, using technology inspired by the urine-drinking opening sequence to Waterworld. Except this time the noxious substance extracted from the water will be oil and no one will drink it. More »

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Reader Nearly Gets Jacked By Fake ATM
By Ben Popken on June 29, 2010 1:00 PM   52 Comments
Reader Paul was trying to enjoy fried pop tarts at an outdoor city festival in his hometown when his debit card was nearly stolen by a fake ATM. Someone had modified an arcade cabinet and placed it outside a bank where it had captured the overflow traffic spilling out of the bank lobby. More »

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Fake ATMs Drain Your Account Dry
By Ben Popken on June 24, 2010 5:00 PM   27 Comments
We've talked about spotting skimmers placed on ATMs before, but what if the whole ATM is a skimmer? More »

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Ex-Disney Worker Pleads Guilty To Skimming $83,000 In Guest Credit Cards
By Ben Popken on June 14, 2010 5:46 PM   21 Comments
Maybe she overdosed on saccharine. A Walt Disney World resort front desk clerk has plead guilty after getting caught for placing skimmers on the computers at work, ripping off 178 people, 32 banks and credit-card issuers of over $83,000. More »

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