Truth 27 ATM Scams

Throughout this book, I have discussed a variety of ways in which identity thieves have devised to separate you from your hard-earned cash. Thieves use everything from brute force to subterfuge to confidence schemes to technological wizardry to steal your money and perhaps even your identity. So by now it should come as no shock that identity thieves will even go so far as to set up a fake ATM to empty your bank account.

Identity thieves have used numerous techniques to attempt to gain people’s PINs. In some cases, they’ve placed a small camera hidden somewhere on the ATM. In one example, the thief made a fake flyer holder containing a tiny camera that was attached to the ATM. A small hole had been drilled into the holder ...

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