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Originally Posted by estebangc
In a similar way, I read that, if suspicious, it's good to insert the card and then abort the operation.
The card should come back out, but if it doesn't the ATM has probably been manipulated, but at least you did not introduce the PIN. Time to stay there and call for rescue (although they may have perfectionned the technology since then and now you get it back!).
Esteban
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That is one technique but I think it may be earlier technology; I understand that it is based on a simple bit of "bent wire" that is placed in the card slot which intercepts the card and stops it being returned to the card holder; in the meantime you will have entered your PIN which is seen by a camera placed above the keyboard. You are supposed to walk away - to make a complaint/investigate further about your situation (probably aware that cash machines do, occasionally, retain cards). In meantime, the criminals have been watching the ATM and step forward to remove the bit of bent wire and they now have your original card + a record of the PIN on their camera - they can go on doing this all day long, moving around between cash machines.
Those in the documentary were using more sophisticated technology that can read your card (+ the PIN via a camera if you don't shield it from view) and they can continue doing this indefinitely, making a series of records of card magnetic strip details + the PIN. These are then cloned onto new cards.
For instance, in one raid by the police, a parcel containing 2000 brand new cards issued in Malaysia were posted to the UK for card duplication.
As I mentioned above, the criminals manage to stay ahead of us.
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Dave
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