“ATM Skimmers” In Woodland Hills? Watch Out, Folks!

I came across this interesting blog during a google search the other day, and it’s a little bit frightening!  Apparently they make devices that slip over the card slot of ATM card readers to grab your card numbers and even use digtal cameras to get you entering your pin code.

KrebsOnSecurity.com writes:

Pictured below is what’s known as a skimmer, or a device made to be affixed to the mouth of an ATM and secretly swipe credit and debit card information when bank customers slip their cards into the machines to pull out money. Skimmers have been around for years, of course, but thieves are constantly improving them, and the device pictured below is a perfect example of that evolution.

This particular skimmer was found Dec. 6, 2009, attached to the front of a Citibank ATM in Woodland Hills, Calif. Would you have been able to spot this?

See the full article for more details and more pictures.

Seems like this story was picked up by about 1,000 security blogs and spam sites, but this quote seems to give a little more news oriented background.  Just a little.

On December 6, 2009, a customer was using the Citibank ATM located at 22000 Ventura Bl, Woodland Hills, CA 91364.  He discovered a skimmer on the machine that he was using.  He also observed a second skimmer on the machine next to him.  The customer called the police and the skimmers were recovered.    It should be noted that the skimmer was designed to fit over the existing card slot and contained the card reader and the camera in one device.

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