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Have you been ‘skimmed’? – credit card fraud explained – utalk
Albina, from Geneva, asks what ‘skimming’ is and how she can protect herself from it.
Laurence Binther, of Europol’s European Cybercrime centre, explains that ‘skimming’ is the theft of data from a credit card’s magnetic strip.
Binther continues: “Fraudsters use special electronic devices – placed on payment terminals, ATMs and automated fuel dispensers – to capture the data cards’ magnetic strips, which is then easily falsifiable.
“Since the introduction of Chip and PIN in Europe in 2010 ba…
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