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ATM Scammers Pwn Selves

Category: Technology
Posted on: August 3, 2009 4:15 PM, by Greg Laden

A fake Automatic Teller Machine set up in a hotel lobby can collect PIN's, account information, even credit card numbers. This is why you should be careful where you stick your card. In a moment of great irony, one such machine was set up in the hotel at a conference hosting 8,000 security professionals. They noticed.

The criminals probably didn't realize that they were installing their ATM in a hotel that was soon going to be flooded with more than 8,000 security professionals, he added.

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."

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