This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 1:15 pm and is filed under General Category. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Ireland investigating fake credit card reader scam
|
|
If you’ve used a credit card reader in Ireland recently you may want to call your credit card company and monitor your account.
Scammers posing as bank workers replaced credit card readers in retail stores in northeast Ireland with fake readers that captured the data on as many as 10,000 credit and debit cards, according to an IDG News Service report.
The Bank of Ireland shut down some cards and limited overseas withdrawals, while Ireland’s National Police Service launched an investigation.
Criminals can make clone cards with the data they get off the magnetic stripe from the cards that pass through the dummy readers.
See Also:
- Harvest is Coming! Is This the Year to Make Your Own Wine at Judd’s Hill MicroCrush? : Sign-up Deadline is September 1
- Harvest is Coming! Is This the Year to Make Your Own Wine at Judd’s Hill MicroCrush? : Sign-up Deadline is September 1
- Harvest is Coming! Is This the Year to Make Your Own Wine at Judd’s Hill MicroCrush? : Sign-up Deadline is September 1
- Harvest is Coming! Is This the Year to Make Your Own Wine at Judd’s Hill MicroCrush? : Sign-up Deadline is September 1
- Overheating iPod Nanos? Japan investigates
[Via CNET - News.com]
Leave a Reply
