| I warned you all about this a few months back. Wait for it....A Million pound a day!!! However its viewed as a faceless crime.............. by the Banks etc.
Rule 1, never let your card out of your sight, ever!. It takes a micro second for someone to scam the info from it.
However the most likely time your details will be scamed is at the cash point. Initially check around you, look for someone or two hanging around, or someone sitting in a car nearby fiddling with what looks like a lap top.
When you go to the cash point look at the bit where you put your card in, it may look real, but give it a little tug before putting your card in. THis is the low tech stuff.
Secondly, look above where the roof area of the cash point section is, the bit that overhangs the key pad area. Check there for any thing that looks like a strip with the eye of a camera in it. This is the more advanced scam where they have a bit of kit, reading in a car the microwaves your card emits as the genuine machine reads it.
They need a camera link to watch you enter your pin, so when you do enter your pin, cover up your finger as you do it.
The information contained on the magnetic strip is roughly two lines long, and easy to send in an email, add to a card the other end and away you go!  |