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Fake card reader results in stolen cash

Seems that a number of high tech thieves have found a new way to steal money. They attach a fake card reader to an actual ATM. Then when unsuspecting victims puts their card into the fake reader it then passes it thru to the actual ATM Machine slot. The person then punches in their pin and the on-board camera in the fake card-reader digitally records the pin. The person walks away with cash but little do they know that as soon as the thieves pull the data off of the sony memory chip their cards are replicated and then the accounts drained. [Slashdot] [ev6.net]

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