[MarchonDC09122009]

FReeper community friends and family: Use extra caution when paying for fuel at an outside gas pump credit card terminal. Thieves are constantly finding new ways to compromise security using credit card skimmers that look like the point-of-sale credit card terminal.

This is also a growing problems at ATM terminals, especially non-bank ATMS, like the kind inside convenience stores.

Pay with cash, or at least go inside the gas station store to pay with your credit card. Also, you're advised NOT to use your debit card since if compromised and not reported within several days, you can be held financially responsible for your bank account losses.

[MarchonDC09122009]

All About Skimmers — Krebs on Security

www.krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/

The series I’ve written about ATM skimmers, gas pump skimmers and other ... a not-for-profit payment security organization, ATM crimes in Europe jumped...

[MrEdd]

Brief obligatory “I told you so” coupled with lack of sympathy of any sort.

[kingu]

What always gets me about these stories is that they don’t talk about the most likely skimming events. Restaurants and gas stations where you hand your card over to an employee. That’s so much more likely than any random terminal having a skimming device.

[MarchonDC09122009]

The FBI has been kept very busy keeping up with this crime, for some time.

FBI assists in Cincinnati credit card skimmer investigation | Local ...

www.wlwt.com/news/fbi-assists-in-cincinnati-credit-ca... Proxy Highlight

Dec 29, 2015 ... Skimmers that copy credit card information were found at two more Hamilton County gas stations.
Credit card skimmer found in Fort Wayne, FBI investigating | WANE

www.wane.com/2016/02/17/police-warn-of-credit-card-sk... Proxy Highlight

Feb 17, 2016 ... FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) Fort Wayne police have issued a warning to residents to be on the lookout for credit card skimmers. The warning ...
ATM Skimming — FBI

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/atm-skimming Proxy Highlight

Jul 14, 2011 ... How criminals use hidden cameras, fake card slots, and other ruses to steal your money at the ATM.
FBI — Cyber Security: Threats to the Financial Sector

https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/cyber-security-thr... Proxy Highlight

Sep 14, 2011 ... ATM skimming is also a prevalent global cyber crime. .... flow to the private sector by not only reaching out to the current InfraGard membership ...

[Smittie]

Pay with cash,

Who carries cash anymore? I never even see any of the money that gets deposited. I may have $5 or $10 on me...

[PLMerite]

They need to make the punishment for theft/robbery harsher.

They need to make the penalty for identity theft and voter fraud death.

[Company Man]

When they are able to open the pump and place the malware inside, that is a new class of device that goes beyond skimmers. The public can detect skimmers. This, they cannot.

The next step, I predict, will be phony "anti-tamper" seals on compromised pumps.