[Scam] What an ATM skimmer looks like

Coach AI · Apr 20, 2009

Consumerist has an article on what to possibly look for if you are worried about going to an ATM with a skimmer attached to it.

http://consumerist.com/5218680/heres-what-a-card-skimmer-looks-like-on-an-atm?skyline=true&s=i

A lot of you have been asking to see what a skimmer looks like before it's yanked off an ATM. Are they easy to spot or virtually unnoticeable? Our reader Timeus works for a bank and deals with this sort of thing every day, and he sent in the following photos.

...See that gray rectangular box? That box was attached to the lighting above the ATM screen. If you look closely, you see a small pinhole in that box? There is a camera in that box, aimed right down at the ATM keypad where people enter their pin codes. Here's this device pulled off, sitting on the ground upside down, to show you the camera, with its Sony Lithium-Ion battery powering it
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That thing above is this camera hidden inside:

More info (including the card skimmer/scanner) at the link.

Air Langhi · Apr 20, 2009

I think I got scammed by one of those, and now the bank is trying to not give my money back.

tested911 · Apr 20, 2009

LOL you know I wonder how many people are going to try this now that it's on the web. Hmmmmmm especially in an economy in the state it's in.

Coach AI · Apr 21, 2009

Air Langhi said:

I think I got scammed by one of those, and now the bank is trying to not give my money back.
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