Posted on 08/04/2009 7:54:14 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
Criminals running an ATM card-skimming scam made a big mistake this week: They tried to hit the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas.
As the conference was kicking off a few days ago, attendees noticed that an ATM placed in the Riviera Hotel, which plays host to the annual event, didn't quite look right, according to a senior conference organizer who identified himself only as Priest. "They looked at the screen where there would normally be a camera," he said. "It was a little bit too dark, so someone shined a flashlight in there and there was a PC."
The ATM looked like a working system, but when people would put their cards in the machine, it would scan their card information and record the PINs they entered. He didn't know how long the ATM had been at the Riviera.
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Vegas a few years two guys tried to rob a cop hangout bar.
ago-so much for proof reading.
It’s like trying to rob the donut shop during the cops’ lunch break.
LOL!
They were smart enough to place the machine in one of the few spots in the hotel where there was no security camera to catch them, Priest said. "It was literally right next to the hotel security entrance
Whoever runs security at that casino needs to get a pink slip. How exactly do criminals transport a bogus ATM into the site without detection?
Probably it was easier to do than smuggling a tiny shoe bomb concealed in a heel into the casino.
Read Edgar Allen Poe's "The Purloined Letter". All the principals and policemen couldn't find the diminutive "stolen" letter in the apartment although they searched every nook and cranny countless times.
Turns out the letter was in plain view on top of the escritoire all the time.
No one ever thought any professional thief would leave it in such an open, obvious place.
Leni
Good point. I can never seem to find my car keys when they’re in my hand.
My glasses on top of my head
Hilarious. I just got back from Vegas yesterday, and we ate at the Peppermill restaurant on Saturday, right next door to the Riviera. Some Defcon conventioneers had rented the lounge for a private party.
Freak doesn’t even begin to describe.
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