Scam Warning - Anyone travelling on underground

[mattyh]

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNwYpUyHSmGqrewdMepMIVuubqYA

Warning over ticket machine fraud

16 hours ago
Commuters have been warned to be alert after it emerged fraudsters are targeting London Underground ticket machines to clone credit and debit cards.
British Transport Police (BTP) said its Credit Card Fraud Investigation Unit had recovered 27 skimming devices this year after they had been used 58 times on London Underground ticket machines.
The skimming devices clone the details of credit or debit cards so that counterfeit cards can be made, while a camera also records the card's PIN as the holder types it in.

 

[Steep]

These kind of machines are easy targets for criminals, since the public using them are often in a rush to get to work or wherever and rarely have the time to examine them.

At any machine take a moment to check wether there's anything that seems out of place on the front, particularly over the card slot. These things are increasingly very well made and can be hard to spot so look carefully.

Finding decent pictures of one is hard but there's a couple of links below.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,,1348499,00.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...le_id=379857&in_page_id=1770&ct=5&expand=true

 

[Ross]

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