Did you goto the stampede grounds on the weekend? (Apr 24/25)

[kenny]

If you were down on the stampede grounds on the weekend for either the Calgary Entertainment Expo or the Calgary Women's Show and you used a bank machine, your card may have been skimmed.

Read some reports that skimmers were found on the ATMs.

Your bank would probably notify you if your card was compromised, but never a bad idea to be proactive. Change your pins :)

[codetrap]

We got this internally today..

I’ve never sent a e-mail to all of (WORK) but thought this warranted it.

I’ve received two notices from a buddy about one of the ATMs at TD-Canada Trust in Brentwood. The ATM inside the bank branch had an ATM skimmer placed on it twice. Once on Friday and once Today before noon. Both incidents were reported to the police and the skimmers have been removed.

What is an ATM card skimmer? It’s a little device that is designed to look like it’s the card slot. It’s job is to record the data on the magnetic strip. It may also have a camera pointed at the PIN pad to record you inputting your PIN number. When they can not build that into the unit, a camera will be placed in something else, a mirror that sits ontop of the mirror where the banks camera is placed, a false front that looks like the ATMs logo, or even the little box that holds envelopes for deposit cheques. Some skimmers are accompanied by fake PIN pads that sit on top of the real ones and just record all button presses.

Some of these devices are even reporting the data wirelessly, so the crooks never have to reclaim the devices. Once the data is collected, well, take a guess at what happens.

So, what do you do?

No matter what debit machine you are using do a little bit of physical investigation of the machine. Tug on the machine face surrounding the card slot. Give every edge around the card slot a good tug and look for other things that seem out of place. EVERY DEBIT MACHINE. Card skimmers are now sold on the internet by make and model, that’s how prevalent this is getting. Even drive through ATMs, even the ATMs inside bank branches.

Keep an eye on your bank statements as well.

Be safe guys.

Some examples :

http://i.gizmodo.com/5201176/a-man-finds-an-actual-card-skimmer-in-the-wild-in-the-flesh
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/02/atm-skimmers-part-ii/
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/01/would-you-have-spotted-the-fraud/
http://www.google.ca/search?q=atm+card+skimmers

[sexualbanana]

When I worked at a bank, I got shown a bunch of pictures of skimmers and examples of camera placement and a lot of them are just fucked how unnoticeable they are.

[97'Scort]

Got a new card in the mail today with a notice saying my card was skimmed somewhere here in Vic. Guess it's good that they caught it.