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Slinky Ferret Slinky Ferret is offline
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Old Sep 13th, 2005, 05:41 PM       
I don't know if you get it where you live but in the UK there have been many incidents of what I think is called skimming. A card reader is placed over the card slot of the ATM so that when you put your card in it reads the details and records the pin number.

Then using the information a fake card can be created. Most of the time this is picked up because the account is maxed out. However, if it is smaller amounts such as £10-£20 over several days people won't notice until it is too late.

The sad thing is it can take a hell of a long time to get the bank to cough up and refund your money.
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