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The Dniprovsky District Court of Kyiv found Polish citizen Marcin Wojtas guilty of fraud, forgery of payment cards and illegal interference in the operation of electronic computers. This is reported by the "Court Reporter" with reference to the verdict of August 28. In the fall of 2020, a...

Plastic payment cards, such as credit and debit cards, are highly popular and convenient cash alternatives, widely accessible to people across most of the world. Their portability and ease of use make them a favored choice for financial transactions. This efficiency is supported by a vast...

Bank card skimmers are devices used by criminals to steal bank card data when using ATMs and payment terminals. These devices look like covers on a card reader, made in accordance with the design of an ATM. Although skimmers “mimic” real card readers, they are quite cumbersome - if you are...

Carding is one of the branches of hacking with a specific specialization consisting in fraud with bank cards. There is strict specialization in carding. Someone gets pin codes and card numbers, someone makes so-called “white plastic” - credit cards on which the data of a real card is recorded...

NCR Corporation introduced the Skimming Protection Solution (SPS), a platform for combating skimmers. NCR 's SPS platform offers financial services organizations the ability to be proactive in the fight against skimmers and ensure the safety of their clients, the company told CNews. As NCR...

VTB24 explained the disappearance of money from the salary cards of 2GIS employees. Employees of the company "2GIS", owners of VTB24 salary cards, became victims of such a common type of fraud as " skimming ", the VTB24 press service told CNews . The bank gives the following definition of...

Meduza continues a series of joint materials with Tinkoff Bank. This time we are publishing a text from the Tinkoff magazine about skimming: about how scammers attach various devices to ATMs, read your PIN code, and then remove everything that can be taken from the card. It is unpleasant and...

At the end of last year, the life of a 37-year-old Romanian citizen changed dramatically. Overnight, he lost all hopes of a comfortable life in the United States and found himself not only in the hands of law enforcement agencies in New York, but became the hero of the Associated Press news. A...

Once again, while withdrawing money from an ATM of one of the Ukrainian banks, I noticed an information message that asked me to make sure that the PIN keyboard matches the image on the screen. After checking the image, I realized that the keyboards are different. I examined the PIN keyboard...

What you need to know to avoid becoming a victim of carders-scammers. It happens like this: you find yourself in an unfamiliar place without money. You see an ATM in the alley. Withdraw cash. A few weeks later, a text message arrives: someone in Cape Town is also withdrawing money from your...

Europol has joined forces with law enforcement agencies in 17 countries to warn 443 online merchants that their customers' payment card data has been compromised. The two-month operation, led by Greece and supported by Group-IB and Sansec, combated digital skimming. The essence of skimming is...

Why there are people advertising cloning cards and cashing out if all todays ATM don’t use magstripe and use EMV? I keep informing my self about skimmers everyday to learn, but today you can still clone a card and cashout? If there is a few or no ATMS that accept magstripecards info only , why...

Most of you when you started to get informed on the carding world, you tought about buying a skimmer right? Just place it (with camera) let the cards come in take it home, clone the cards and start withdrawing money. The thing is buying a skimmer is too expensive +1k sometimes I’ve seen some...

How are you hustlers doing? In today’s guide we’ll be discussing how you can skim cards yourself and become one of our Vendor in 2023 (or use them yourself) we pay top $$$ to our vendors for their hard work as we have a list of very keen buyers looking for quality dumps + pins. This guide was...

The volume of the bank card market has been growing rapidly lately. It is not surprising that all sorts of swindlers strive to grab a piece of this delicious "pie". At the same time, they skillfully and quite impudently use the gifts of technical progress, as well as the carelessness and...

I'm relatively new to Carding but where can I buy some machines for Reading and Writing on Cards ?; I'll be using these for my own Educational use only. Mostly looking for Mobile Devices / Portable

Contents 1. What is skimming? 2. Skimming devices, their differences and principle of operation 3. How to protect yourself from skimming? For many of us, it may come as a complete surprise to a situation when funds disappeared without a trace on a bank card, and such cases are far from being...

In April, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation announced the arrest of a group of people who sent messages to citizens with information about blocking a card and a number to call to unblock it. The attackers learned from the victims their personal data and card details...

Skimming is a method of copying card data using a special device - a skimmer. The bottom line is simple: Anfisa inserts the card into the ATM, the skimmer copies the data. To get a PIN, the punks put a mini-camera or keyboard overlays. When using an ATM, check if there are any overlays on it...

A new virus attacking ATMs has emerged in Russia. The peculiarity is that it penetrates the ATM without any physical contact, and it is difficult to identify and fix the problem. The purpose of the virus is not customer funds, but money in an ATM, which is configured to issue all the largest...