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Overheard a banking exec's joke about ATM skimmers, now I check every machine
Last Tuesday at a coffee shop in Austin, this guy in a suit laughed about how easy it was to clone cards from gas station readers at night. He named a specific brand of skimmer that fits right over the card slot, and I've been tugging on every reader since. Has anyone else caught professionals slipping like that in public?
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xena_bailey181mo ago
Three years ago I watched a guy in a Delta uniform at DFW airport tap his card on a reader that had a tiny blue light that didn't match the rest of the machine. I still yank on every pump handle and card slot like I'm testing a pull-up bar. My buddy thinks I'm paranoid until I showed him a YouTube video of a skimmer that fits so flush you need a flashlight to spot it. Now he checks the gas station pumps before we even get out of the car. Honestly it's become a weird hobby, like geocaching but with more financial dread.
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