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How to spot a card skimmer.

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  • #2
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Thats the same sort of phone dem bleedin non nationals use too.


  • #3
    Thrill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    I would never have spotted that. It's well disguised.


  • #4
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    WindSock wrote: »
    Thats the same sort of phone dem bleedin non nationals use too.

    ..either the Nigeraphone or Romaphone model. I suggest we lynch one of each, to avoid allegations of racism.


  • #5
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Just cover the keypad as you enter your PIN and you'll be alright.


  • #6
    Mr.Lizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    So how do we spot the skimmer (without going at it with a chizel)? v.disappointed with thread title :(


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  • #7
    Cianos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    Nice pics, but how much cash did you actually make with the thing?


  • #8
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Jaysus Lads y'know what this means?

    Free phones at ATM's. I'm going to have to try find 'em. I mean seriously, who's going to report one of them stolen?


  • #9
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,604 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Just cover the keypad as you enter your PIN and you'll be alright.
    You might be if certain key details weren't also stored on the mag-stripe :mad:


  • #10
    Catari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    WindSock wrote: »
    Thats the same sort of phone dem bleedin non nationals use too.

    I believe the correct term is "bleeding fordeners" ;)


  • #11
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,571 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    D wrote: »
    It is a card reader stuck to a public atm machine.
    A public automated teller machine machine?


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  • #12
    R0ot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


    Ah you found it eh? Can you return it to me please ill hide the next one better I swear. :pac:


  • #13
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Just cover the keypad as you enter your PIN and you'll be alright.

    The phone is used to send data read from the skimmer to somewhere, I doubt it was taking videos of people entering their pins :pac:

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



  • #14
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    Dartz wrote: »
    Free phones at ATM's. I'm going to have to try find 'em. I mean seriously, who's going to report one of them stolen?
    yeah, until a garda spots you removing it from said cash machine and thinks it's yours. :pac:


  • #15
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Just cover the keypad as you enter your PIN and you'll be alright.

    Does it not read the password as opposed to taking pics of you putting it in? I dont think covering it will work


  • #16
    Highsider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Highsider


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Just cover the keypad as you enter your PIN and you'll be alright.
    Is the right answer


  • #17
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,314 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Turd Ferguson wrote: »
    Does it not read the password as opposed to taking pics of you putting it in? I dont think covering it will work
    Where does it read it?


  • #18
    wudangclan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭wudangclan


    i think i spotted him in the seventh picture


  • #19
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Your PIN isn't stored on your card AFAIK. Because you can change your PIN at an ATM and the ATM doesn't have the ability to write any info to your card I don't think.

    From what I have seen (albeit only on TV reports) they skim your card and take footage of you keying in your number also via a small camera. Without your PIN the cloned card is useless.

    Could be wrong though.


  • #20
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    the pin isn't stored on the swipe part of a bank card, but it IS on the chip part of a chip&pin card (the hint is in the name) although it is encrypted and this encryption has not (as far as I am aware) been broken yet although i did hear of a proof of concept that could in theory at least break it under the right conditions (using the readers they have in a supermarket) a while ago.

    the skimmer reads the magnetic strip as you put your card in the slot because it is fitted over the top of the slot and you pass your card through the skimmer itself as you put the card in. the other half of the equation is the camera that records you entering your pin no.

    with a scan of your magnetic strip they can make a copy of your card and use that with your pin no. to draw out cash from your account.

    i was not aware that they were using mobiles now though, one would assume that they are using it to download the info remotely (either via buetooth or gprs) without removing the skimmer. it used to be that they left them in there to record their stuff and then had to go and remove them again later to get the data off them.


  • #21
    me-skywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    vibe666 wrote: »
    the pin isn't stored on the swipe part of a bank card, but it IS on the chip part of a chip&pin card (the hint is in the name) although it is encrypted and this encryption has not (as far as I am aware) been broken yet although i did hear of a proof of concept that could in theory at least break it under the right conditions (using the readers they have in a supermarket) a while ago.

    the skimmer reads the magnetic strip as you put your card in the slot because it is fitted over the top of the slot and you pass your card through the skimmer itself as you put the card in. the other half of the equation is the camera that records you entering your pin no.

    with a scan of your magnetic strip they can make a copy of your card and use that with your pin no. to draw out cash from your account.

    i was not aware that they were using mobiles now though, one would assume that they are using it to download the info remotely (either via buetooth or gprs) without removing the skimmer. it used to be that they left them in there to record their stuff and then had to go and remove them again later to get the data off them.

    who did you scam that off? wiki.......


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  • #22
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    me-skywalker wrote: »
    who did you scam that off? wiki.......
    nope, all from inside my brain from what i've soaked up watching the news and that show where they con people and film it to 'educate' people on how easy it is to get scammed.

    they did one on card skimming a while back and it just happened to be the only one i ever saw aside from the one where they do the binbags through the door for old clothes to go to africa scam and then wash and sell them in a hastily opened 'vintage' clothes shop.

    although that might have been in the same episode.


  • #23
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    vibe666 wrote: »
    the pin isn't stored on the swipe part of a bank card, but it IS on the chip part of a chip&pin card (the hint is in the name)

    Well I only use my regular bank card at ATMs so should be alright so.


  • #24
    PK2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭PK2008


    Its not a scam.

    The thing is, see, they take your Credit Card numbers and if one of them is lucky you win a prize


  • #25
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    i wouldn't have spotted it from the part around where you put the card in its looks ok :/

    where was that atm anywhere looks wrecked.


  • #26
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    This place is getting more like Youtube every day - can the OP please tell us how to spot a card skimming ATM, or is the title there just to lure us in?

    This is a thanks-skimming thread. Beware.


  • #27
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    lostexpectation wrote: »
    i wouldn't have spotted it from the part around where you put the card in its looks ok :/

    where was that atm anywhere looks wrecked.

    Poland I think, well its hosted on what looks like a polish site...

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



  • #28
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    yoyo wrote: »
    Poland I think, well its hosted on what looks like a polish site...

    Nick

    .ie? Sparky?. Where in Gods name did that come from?


  • #29
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    No one ever give a quick tug at the machine for any loose bits ? :confused:


  • #30
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    .ie? Sparky?. Where in Gods name did that come from?

    http://widelec.org/zdjecie,bankomat,2820.html

    Should have maybe said they came from a polish site, sorry :pac::p

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



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  • #31
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Quazzie2002 wrote: »
    Where does it read it?

    I dunno. Where does it take pictures of you putting it? :D


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