[Andiline]

Just an info for all those who think that things like that happen only in Mexico: in the past months several banks here in Cologne had the problem that little attachments were put in front of the slit for the card of ATMs which copied the data and then little cameras were installed with which the entry of the PINs was filmed when people entered them on the keyboard. Afterwards with the saved data clones of the ATM-cards were made. Once people knew that this was happening they became more careful and the banks changed the ATMs so that technique became more difficult.

Then it happened that whoever did that became more skilled (as they are working on their technology all the time) and next thing was that they put a keyboard dummy on the real keyboard and with this dummy they save the PINs. The keyboard dummy was so good that it was hard to detect (I think they found out only because it slipped a little bit to one side). Last thing they tried (was successful in Austria) was to blow up an ATM with gas. That was 2 weeks ago but the ATM withheld that effort so they were not successful at least not here in Cologne.

ATM's seem to be a target market for organized crime in Europe these days....

Andrea