{"id":170395,"date":"2016-07-07T18:28:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=170395"},"modified":"2016-07-07T21:49:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:49:58","slug":"how-atm-card-skimmers-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/170395-how-atm-card-skimmers-work.html","title":{"rendered":"How ATM card skimmers work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) recently warned that card fraud is still a big problem in South Africa, with card skimming contributing to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Criminals use sophisticated technologies and well-hidden devices to catch unsuspecting victims at ATMs.<\/p>\n<p>To date, not much information was available about how these skimmers are installed and worked &#8211; but new videos published by Krebs on Security shows how they function.<\/p>\n<p>Krebs on Security explained that operating an\u00a0ATM skimmer requires two special tools that are sold with it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One tool to set the skimmer in place inside the ATM\u2019s card acceptance slot.<\/li>\n<li>Another tool to retrieve the skimmer from the ATM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the videos below from Krebs on Security, a skimmer seller demonstrates how his insert skimmers work and how the device allows cards to transit through the ATM card reader while recording their data.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nlx_GDeaEtI\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y0cfYcWpL70\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on card skimming<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/128194-watch-out-for-these-card-skimming-and-pin-theft-tricks-criminals-use.html\"><strong>Watch out for these card skimming and PIN theft tricks criminals use<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/156139-the-new-way-criminals-are-card-skimming-at-atms.html\"><strong>The new way criminals are card skimming at ATMs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how ATM card skimmers are installed, and how they record card data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":156165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106],"tags":[25839,2352,35],"class_list":["post-170395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-atm-card-skimmer","tag-card-skimming","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170547,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170395\/revisions\/170547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}