Sleight of hand and no fraud. Installing a skimmer on the terminal in the store in just 3 seconds

It seems that the scammer used something like this nozzle on the terminal

Technology is moving very fast now. This is noticeable in any field, including financial. In the vast majority of stores you can pay by card. With the same card, you can withdraw money from an ATM, or pay for a phone, or ... In general, there are many possibilities. But if an ordinary citizen is still more or less aware of the fact that an ATM can be with a skimmer, then few people know that such devices are created for payment terminals in stores.

And this is so, and scammers are actively installing skimmers. This is done quietly and quickly. Recently, the camera of one of the Miami Beach stores recorded a high-speed skimmer installation - the scammer took only three seconds to complete everything. The attackers worked in pairs: one - distracted the seller, sending him to buy in the far corner of the shop, the other - put the device.


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The video was posted to the network by the police of the region, which hopes for the help of society in identifying the two scammers.

The use of skimmers is a traditional, one might say, way to take money from an ordinary person. And so far this technology can be very effective, especially if the outlet still conducts transactions in the old way, without a new type of protection systems and new standards such as EMV cards.

Advice in this case may be normal - if you have some strange payments in your account, you need to block your card and then contact the bank support service.

Generally speaking, skimmers are used everywhere. ATMs, terminals - this is only part of the problem. Scammers are coming up with new ways of cheating the owners of bank accounts and cards. For example, last year they began to install skimmers on the doors of banks , with an installed credit card reader. With this reader, you can open the door during non-business hours of the bank to gain access to the ATM. Insert the card into the door receiver - and voila, the road is open. But during this time, the skimmer has time to read information from a magnetic tape, after which the scammer only needs to use this data. The camera for monitoring pin-code dialing is installed indoors, near the ATM.

It got to the point that scam artists put even fake ATMs, not skimmers. This also happened, and you can read about it here .