Digital Data Stealing from ATM using Data Skimmers: Challenge to the Forensic Examiner by Mukesh Sharma in JFSCI - Juniper Publishers
Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) are secured money dispenser machines easily operated now available at nearest corner of our ally. Secured cards are used to operate these machines. By the passage of time they are not as secured, as presumed. Now these are highly venerable to the fraud. An Important component of the machine is card reader that initiates the machine for further action. Criminals are high-tech these days and cleverly stealing information and data written on the credit-cards which is generally presumed as secured by common non- techno-savvy user. Apart from concealed camera picture of the PIN number of the user, Peeping through shoulder of the user, which are easily detectable way used by the criminals a highly reliable and easy to use gadget called Digital skimmers are in use. Skimming, a form of high-tech financial fraud, is on the rise worldwide. However, ATM card fraud, that crime which most people associate with ID theft, decreased as a percentage of all ID theft complaints for the sixth year in a row, ATM frauds in the India even and across the world. In present paper authors have discussed use of various kind of skimmer used by the criminals and the tricks to theft the ID of individuals.
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