These ingeniously simple devices can easily be overlooked. A small battery-powered scanner is placed in-line with any legitimate ATM card reader, then the thief simply collects the skimmer before the machine is serviced.
Criminals use credit-card skimming devices to store data that can be used later for identity theft. Typically, bank ATM machines are the target of such scams. In an incident last April, a bank in Tysons Corner, Va., warned customers that thieves had installed a skimmer at an ATM, as well as a wireless camera to visually record the 4-digit PINs customers entered to withdraw cash from the machines.
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