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Posted on 05/22/2025 8:30:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Authorities cracking down on national organized-crime rings swiping $18 billion a year through ATM card-skimming have now turned their sights on aiding Big Apple victims.
The US Secret Service, which investigates financial crimes along with protecting the president, started the crackdown in California last year because of the staggering problem and has now expanded to team up with a new NYPD task force to try to thwart the criminals better here.
“It’s billions of dollars [stolen] annually across the nation, so that jumps off the page by any metric,” Secret Service spokesman James Byrne told The Post on Wednesday, as the New York City initiative was rolled out.
“That’s the impetus for it.”
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My mom, chipotle 26 bucks, Uber ride for 45 dollars in san Francisco, and a frigging 55 dollar greyhound bus ticket if you can believe it.
Some Indian guy in Skytree in Tokyo RFID-skimmed a person’s card in my tour group through her bookbag. It’s everywhere.
Time to go back to manual credit card swiping machines available only at merchant counters.
Cash is still King.
Too impractical and inconvenient. Not going to work with online purchasing. Going through the self-checkout lane at the grocery store it's one second to tap my card. Can you imagine having to manually run a card in that scenario? Once we get away from card readers that require inserting a card and go to all tap card readers this will resolve itself. Additionally, the verification process for purchases where the card is not present needs to be resolved.
I was just kidding. But it is sad how technology can’t solve some basic problems.
They got me a couple of weeks ago. I am guessing it was from a 7-11 ATM machine, which I hate using but needed to pay a guy who helped me move a container but Zelle wasn’t going through for some reason, so I went to get cash at the closest ATM.
They got me Four charges. They used odd numbers like $461.18. I caught it immediately (within hours) and the bank reversed the charges but told me they could not retrieve the money. Not sure how that worked unless they actually did copy the card and use a foreign bank ATM. I told the bank to use their brains next time how could I be in California and some foreign land at the same time? Computers Should’ve flagged it right away.
Crazy
It’s the tap readers that make it easier to skim the card. Just need to capture and copy the RFID. Soon they will demand biometrics. Many services (even Microsoft Windows!) is implementing it. Cell phones with facial recognition. Two factor authentication.
For about two years I got new cards because some gang in Atlanta kept getting my card numbers to buy things at a wig store, a wheel rim store, ‘beauty’ supply stores, and walmarts.
No book stores or work shoe stores...
Scum bags
Yeah, my mother in law, who died recently, got taken for $50,000. She had a box of gift cards and I guess had sent the activation codes to some email from New York. These really are bottom dwellers.
So sorry
Glad I don’t have one my brother was binged for $1,500 lesson learned.
Oh yes thanks. Of course there is a little selfishness on our part. We could have had a portion of that in inheritance. I don’t know what is worse. These people or casinos. My grandparents were given 200,000 in gold by their aunt, and over the course of 15 years blew it at the casino. My grandma is the only one left alive. She can hardly move and goes very slow with her walker but somehow manages to cross the street to go to the casino. And they don’t give a damn at the casino. We tried to tell them to not let our grandmother in.
“Hmm, yea, I’m not really seeing this major benefit to NFC cards that you apparently do...?”
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