A system and method for detecting the presence of a skimmer in the credit card reader of a kiosk such as a gas pump, ATM or other self-service vending machine which conducts the transaction directly with the consumer without interaction of an attendant or clerk. A light source and a light...
In other words, one could easily write an app with a hard-coded “This Area Certified Zebra-Free” message and market it as a “Zebra Detector,” and 99.999% of the time, it’ll give you the right results. [Ben]’s build provides the zebra, as it were, by posing as an active ...
Sometimes crooks will remove the door card readers and actually tinker with the technology inside the reader, as I detailed ina skimmer story from 2011. In that incident, the hidden camera was stuck behind a mirror that was affixed to the wall several inches above the actual ATM. The thieves...