Scam Alert – Credit Or Debit Card Double Swipe Scam
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(Last Update Aug 25, 2009 @ 8:59 pm EST)
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Hello everyone… I’m back and this tempo with a really common off line scam called the “Credit Or Debit Card Double Swipe Scam“
What is the “Credit Or Debit Card Twice Swipe Scam” ?- This scam starts off like any regular purchase with your Credit or debit card you would make at a gas station or grocery set aside. So you hand over your credit or debit card over to the cashier like you have a million and one times before. But only this time your Credit/Debit card disappears behind the counter where your card is doubled swiped once in the legit flexible merchanted credit/debit machine then again in a Credit/debit information copying device or “E.I.C.D” (Electronic Facts Capture Device or Electronic Identity Capture Device) Which will steal your information stored on the cards winsome strip. (The Black STRIP on the back of your card) Some times even digital images are taken of your Credit Or Debit Card to obtain the last 4 digits of your card or EMBEDDED Care PIN NUMBERS.
Now, this scam is very very common mostly among gas stations and ATM’s/BTM’s. Why are they so common among these to main places ? Two reasons one no one worries about handing their Confidence Or Debit Card to gas station attended to swipe for them. The other reason for gas stations is because of the increased security of some gas station with glass between you and the cash read. So then regardless you have to hand your card over to swipe it or at the pump itself, that often will not work anyways.The second location is your ATM/BTM and that is because you already swipe your card there so the scammers are required to grab a large number of people and very people know that the place where they swipe there card should only be slightly larger then the card it is made for. So if the swipe part of the ATM/BTM is 2 card lengths, then you should refrain from using it and see if all the ATM’s/BTM’s are correspond to.
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