Comments on: Are your credit cards safe? http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/10/are-your-credit-cards-safe/ News - Discussion And Information For A Digital Gold World Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:32:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: DigitalMoneyWorld.com - RFID: Give Out Your Credit Card Info As You Walk Around Town ! http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/10/are-your-credit-cards-safe/#comment-50 DigitalMoneyWorld.com - RFID: Give Out Your Credit Card Info As You Walk Around Town ! Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:09:24 +0000 http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/10/are-your-credit-cards-safe/#comment-50 [...] I wrote a couple of quick posts on the RFID topic some months back: Are your credit cards safe? Hacker Cracks and Clones the new US Gov. ‘e-passport’ ie. the RFID Passport [...] […] I wrote a couple of quick posts on the RFID topic some months back: Are your credit cards safe? Hacker Cracks and Clones the new US Gov. ‘e-passport’ ie. the RFID Passport […]

]]> By: mgmt http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/10/are-your-credit-cards-safe/#comment-6 mgmt Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:50:05 +0000 http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/10/are-your-credit-cards-safe/#comment-6 <strong>Debit Card Fraud Update</strong> Tuesday, 11 July 2006 - Ashland police are now working with the FBI to investigate recent thefts from bank accounts using consumer debit and ATM cards. It's now believed that some 200 people have fallen victim to the crime with a dollar loss of $200-thousand. Police say all the victims shopped at a Dollar Tree Store in the Rogue Valley between May 1st and June 10th of this year. Most of the crimes involved the Ashland Dollar Tree. If you think you're a victim, the FBI would like you to log on to their Internet Crime Complaint Center at http://www.ic3.gov http://www.localnewscomesfirst.com/content/view/934/2/ Debit Card Fraud Update
Tuesday, 11 July 2006 - Ashland police are now working with the FBI to investigate recent thefts from bank accounts using consumer debit and ATM cards.

It’s now believed that some 200 people have fallen victim to the crime with a dollar loss of $200-thousand. Police say all the victims shopped at a Dollar Tree Store in the Rogue Valley between May 1st and June 10th of this year. Most of the crimes involved the Ashland Dollar Tree. If you think you’re a victim, the FBI would like you to log on to their Internet Crime Complaint Center at http://www.ic3.gov http://www.localnewscomesfirst.com/content/view/934/2/

]]> By: mgmt http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/10/are-your-credit-cards-safe/#comment-5 mgmt Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:03:17 +0000 http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/10/are-your-credit-cards-safe/#comment-5 <strong>Debit Card Fraud Rampant in Canada</strong> Canadian retailers are dealing with a surge in debit card fraud, according to published reports. Fraudsters have been stealing card terminals from gas stations, convenience stores, and fast-food chains and rigging the devices to steal data embedded on magnetic stripes, including personal identification numbers (PINs). The rigged terminals are then switched with genuine machines. In Ottawa and Montreal, PIN pad fraud has resulted in approximately $6.7 million in losses during the past few months. More than 40 retailers in Montreal reported a scam in which wireless internet connections were used to remotely retrieve PINs and card numbers from rigged terminals, data which was used to clean out the bank accounts of about 18,000 cardholders. Canadians use debit cards more than any other country, averaging 82 million debit transactions a year. Debit Card Fraud Rampant in Canada

Canadian retailers are dealing with a surge in debit card fraud, according to published reports.

Fraudsters have been stealing card terminals from gas stations, convenience stores, and fast-food chains and rigging the devices to steal data embedded on magnetic stripes, including personal identification numbers (PINs). The rigged terminals are then switched with genuine machines.

In Ottawa and Montreal, PIN pad fraud has resulted in approximately $6.7 million in losses during the past few months.

More than 40 retailers in Montreal reported a scam in which wireless internet connections were used to remotely retrieve PINs and card numbers from rigged terminals, data which was used to clean out the bank accounts of about 18,000 cardholders.

Canadians use debit cards more than any other country, averaging 82 million debit transactions a year.

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