Friday 11 May 2012

Beware: if your card is being scanned in ATM

ATM card cloning the thugs have now made way to the ATM machine. Those machines are a special device with a card cloning. Incidents like these in many cities of the country including Tamil Nadu, after banks in Rajasthan alerts sent to customers. Banks to prevent the biometric ATM machines are also considering adding. Banks said the alert to avoid cloning of the card PIN numbers are constantly changing.
PNB, ICICI, IDBI, Axis Bank managers say they now change the PIN number of alerts, to alert security personnel have been directed. There is no case in the state. So, do not have to worry so special.
What is the ATM card Skimmer:
Sticking to the back of the ATM card magnetic strip through a criminal Skimmer the bank account holder's data is copied.
In addition to the capture pin - board the pin - hole camera is the pin to suppress the activities of the records.
Difficult to distinguish
IT department of a major public banks according to the expert, Dr. IP Jain and Dinesh Kumar is difficult to distinguish what is and what is not Skimmer ATM machine. The molding machine that is part of the card reader is. Though often in Skimming ATM card entry indicator device takes to cover that this is a good clue that there Skimmer.

Five places where  Skimmer  can be fixed
ATMs are five such places where it can be Skimmer. The light diffuser area, the speaker area, ATM machine inside the side (Fesia), card reader entry slot and ATM - the board area. ATM-use should take a good look at these places while. If a suspicious object or a scratch card, marks, glue-only visible evidence of tampering with the ATM.


Now most of the incidents in Tamil Nadu, India
At many places in Tamil Nadu through ATM Skimming lakhs people. To have been cheated. Pradeshbr Tamil Nadu police had issued such an alert. In April, the country's largest bank State Bank of India had issued an alert stating that the ATM Skimmer consumer data was stolen and sold in international markets.


Additional switching center in Mumbai, SBI General Manager of Canara Bank in Chennai last month, according to Srinivas MSS 29 and were engaged in Bangalore Skimmer 8 ATM machines. The data of the criminals in Russia sold nearly 1.5 million people. Srinivas, a measure to avoid the Skimming again and again is to change your ATM PIN.
ATM will be working on bio-metric systems
Bank officials said fingerprints match the biometric system will work only ATM. After entering the PIN, press card, not a software issue, but a picture is created inside programmable machine. When a match does the approval of the transaction. The metric system is the picture of the fingerprint is matched directly. If the finger does not straighten the machine does not work.
Though its an incident of India, people around the world need to be careful before inserting your card in any ATM machine. ATM cards are mostly used these days so we need to be more conscious about it. 

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