Video Shows How ATMs Are Rigged for Stealing Customers PINs, Cards

Video Shows How ATMs Are Rigged for Stealing Customers PINs, Cards

By THECONSCIENCEng

There have been several complaints of bank customers losing their cards at Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) only to lose all their money seconds later.

Most ATMs require a debit or credit card with a personal identification number (PIN) to access banking services and cash transactions.

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Some Nigerian banks responded to inquiries, promising to refund all that was lost to the affected customers when asked about sudden unauthorised ATM transactions, while others struggled to provide cogent explanations.

A footage has surfaced on how ATM machines are made to capture details of bank cards, including their respective PINs.

The undated video shows an ATM at a filling station with an extra set of keys fitted underneath the keys customers punch their PINs on.

What makes this footage more concerning is the fact that customers would have never noticed the second pair of keys picking up their PINs if not by chance.

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Customers cannot go about vandalising ATMs just to find out if they have a compromising system under the hood of the machine.

Banks in Nigeria still do very little to assure their customers of security of their financial details at the ATM

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Many are reluctant to release CCTV footage to customers as forensic evidence of theft at ATMs. Other banks simply fail to explain how an ATM card disappeared in the bank’s ATM only for hundreds of thousands of naira to go missing a few minutes later. A compromised ATM may not be too far from the truth, if it is not the truth.

Culled from FIJ