Careful With Atm Machines!

[Anees]

Just been sent this at work today:

You are advised that the London Underground has reported some problems with gangs of criminals targeting cash machines. The pictures below were taken at Hammersmith District & Piccadilly station on 21.10.04. The first picture details how the Barclays cash machine normally looks. The criminals have been fitting portable card readers to the machines which clone the card details. The second picture details how the cash machine looks after the cloning device has been fitted with double sided tape.

Oxford has already experienced some similar incidents in the past 6 months. If you become aware that a device has been fitted to a cash machine, please contact the police immediately. Other customers should be discouraged from using the machine until the arrival of the police. These devices tend to be fitted to machines that are away from banking premises, such as the underground, outside supermarkets, petrol stations etc; this way the scam is unlikely to be discovered by banking staff. They are also in place for short periods of time, evenings, nights and at weekends.

NORMAL MACHINE

DEVICE IN PLACE

Please note that false device is cleverly constructed and sprayed the same colour as the machine to which it is fixed, it does not look immediately false or out of place. The machine will operate perfectly in that you will get your card back and the cash, balance etc that you have ordered. What the criminals get are your card details and in some circumstances your pin number, the rest you can imagine………….!

Be careful everyone!

[Stu]

Sound advice, amazing the balls that these people have nowadays!

Stu

[Whitebeam]

Also be aware that the scammers often hang around the machine.

They do the install and then keep an eye on it. If you do find one, look about & see if anyone is taking a lot of interest.

[MrADeveci]

If / when using any cash point machine, it's always best practise to just check the card entry area ..... as the suspect use what is called a "lebanese loop" small metal entry point with a metal cord attached to the end .....

this is forced down the card reader ..... and when you put your cards in, it will jam the machine, and tell you to goto the bank !

When your in the bank ... or on the phone ..... the suspect comes along, and pulls the complete card out .. with everyones cards at the end !

The people that usually hang around ... will take your pin number down ....... usually in there phones ... and just draw cash out from your card !!