Comments on: Chips, PINs and Security Cameras http://boakes.org/chip-pin-camera/ talking up a better world, over tea Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:51:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ian http://boakes.org/chip-pin-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-2759 Ian Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:03:34 +0000 http://boakes.org/?p=480#comment-2759 This recently got posted around work: - <blockquote> Several employees have recently noticed their credit/debit cards have been cloned after shopping at BigNameSuperMarket. Each of these employees have discovered cash withdrawn from their account from an ATM in Canada a day or so after shopping in our local BigNameSuperMarket. So, if you've recently shopped there using your bank card, please check no illicit debits or transactions have taken place on your account of this nature. BigNameSuperMarket confirmed they're aware of similar incidents and are taking steps to increase security. BigNameBank fraud unit has also advised that the theft may be down to the use of cameras, where finger movements on chip & pin machines can be interpreted and your pin number established. So please take extra care and try to use cash rather than cards and/or be extra vigilant when using your pin number. </blockquote> This recently got posted around work: -

Several employees have recently noticed their credit/debit cards have been cloned after shopping at BigNameSuperMarket.

Each of these employees have discovered cash withdrawn from their account from an ATM in Canada a day or so after shopping in our local BigNameSuperMarket. So, if you’ve recently shopped there using your bank card, please check no illicit debits or transactions have taken place on your account of this nature.

BigNameSuperMarket confirmed they’re aware of similar incidents and are taking steps to increase security. BigNameBank fraud unit has also advised that the theft may be down to the use of cameras, where finger movements on chip & pin machines can be interpreted and your pin number established.

So please take extra care and try to use cash rather than cards and/or be extra vigilant when using your pin number.

]]> By: Rich http://boakes.org/chip-pin-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-2758 Rich Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:01:04 +0000 http://boakes.org/?p=480#comment-2758 <a href="http://www.hampshire.police.uk/Internet/news/releases/Cash+card+scam+warning+from+Detectives+in+Fareham.htm" rel="nofollow">Police warn Hampshire residents</a> that they've been filmed entering their PIN at a local garage following the covert installation of rogue CCTV system. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7058286.stm" rel="nofollow">Oh dear.</a> Police warn Hampshire residents that they’ve been filmed entering their PIN at a local garage following the covert installation of rogue CCTV system. Oh dear.

]]> By: Rich http://boakes.org/chip-pin-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-2757 Rich Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:34:43 +0000 http://boakes.org/?p=480#comment-2757 Nearly - same company, different shop. This one is about the same distance from our digs of yesteryear, but on a tangential path. Nearly – same company, different shop. This one is about the same distance from our digs of yesteryear, but on a tangential path.

]]> By: Murky http://boakes.org/chip-pin-camera/comment-page-1/#comment-2756 Murky Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:21:58 +0000 http://boakes.org/?p=480#comment-2756 I found the intitial chip'n'pin brouhaha in the uk to be mildly amusing... In New Zealand we've had eftpos (pretty much the same system but without the 'chip') for over 5 years without any noticeable epedemic of fraud... It's down to usage patterns - that is your eftpos card becomes cash - and if you manage your bank accounts sensibly, you don't allow your life savings to sit in your transaction accout... When your eftpos card goes missing you notice immediately too because you use it all the time, so the chance of someone nicking it and emptying it before you notice is limited... You're probably just as likely to be followed out of the shop for having cash in your wallet... By the way was that the 'One Stop' ? I remember having a run in with those security cameras under very different circumstances some 11 years ago..! I found the intitial chip’n'pin brouhaha in the uk to be mildly amusing… In New Zealand we’ve had eftpos (pretty much the same system but without the ‘chip’) for over 5 years without any noticeable epedemic of fraud…

It’s down to usage patterns – that is your eftpos card becomes cash – and if you manage your bank accounts sensibly, you don’t allow your life savings to sit in your transaction accout…

When your eftpos card goes missing you notice immediately too because you use it all the time, so the chance of someone nicking it and emptying it before you notice is limited…

You’re probably just as likely to be followed out of the shop for having cash in your wallet…

By the way was that the ‘One Stop’ ? I remember having a run in with those security cameras under very different circumstances some 11 years ago..!

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