From the These Thieves Are So Smart, Why Can’t They Get A Real Job Dept comes a story about ATMs. The Canadian Press reports of a scam in Ontario where the bad guys have rigged a number of existing bank machines allowing them to make working copies of customers’ debit cards by putting on a mask.
The thieves install a false front on an ATM machine for a few hours, painted identically to the actual front of the real machine.When a customer slides a debit card into the card slot on the false front, a small electronic device attached to the front reads all the information contained on the card. A tiny camera installed just above the machine’s number pad videotapes customers as they type in their personal identification numbers. The thieves then produce their own magnetic cards containing identical information to customers’ cards.