<story><title>Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/finding-atm-skimmer-pays-paranoid-benjamin-tedesco-gcih-pmp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>white-flame</author><text>While I&amp;#x27;ve seen skimmers that cover the entire front of the ATM, it boggles my mind that the credit card acceptor isn&amp;#x27;t designed to be flush with the front face.  That would make it much harder to plant an additional device on top without it looking more conspicuous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nom</author><text>The &amp;#x27;green eye&amp;#x27; card slot show in the video is actually designed like this in order to make it harder to hide a skimming device in the slot.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t help though, ATM skimming is just so lucrative that they can easily spend a couple of thousand dollars on a skimming device. It pays for itself after less than a day of &amp;#x27;deployment&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Thats also the reason why removing a skimmer by yourself is always a _very very_ bad idea. There is a good chance that the owner of that device is very close. If its a non-wireless skimmer (like most of them are, only few have GSM or bluetooth) the criminal has to retrieve it to collect his loot. If he doesn&amp;#x27;t, he&amp;#x27;ll looses thousands of dollars. You might get stabbed for this. Better alert the authorities and let them handle it.&lt;p&gt;As somebody already mentioned, Brian Krebs has many very interesting posts about skimming technology, like this one about a similar skimming device:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;pro-grade-3d-printer-made-atm-skimmer&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;krebsonsecurity.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;pro-grade-3d-printer-made...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/finding-atm-skimmer-pays-paranoid-benjamin-tedesco-gcih-pmp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>white-flame</author><text>While I&amp;#x27;ve seen skimmers that cover the entire front of the ATM, it boggles my mind that the credit card acceptor isn&amp;#x27;t designed to be flush with the front face.  That would make it much harder to plant an additional device on top without it looking more conspicuous.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucb1e</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sorry, but what does &amp;quot;flush&amp;quot; mean here? I only know it in the context of toilets and computer caches. (I&amp;#x27;m not a native speaker.)&lt;p&gt;Looking it up, you might mean it glows in some color?</text></comment>