Credit card skimming at Florida gas stations

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:35:15 -0800
From: Paul Kedrosky <pkedrosky () hotmail com>
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From today's Florida Sun-Sentinel:


A new and sophisticated type of credit-card fraud has apparently claimed
scores of victims in Florida as they innocently set about filling their cars
or trucks with gas, state officials warn.

The scheme, which has been detected at gas stations along major highways
from Orlando to Naples, involves the use of an electronic decoding device --
known as a "skimmer" -- to intercept numbers from people's credit or bank
cards as they slide them through the magnetic reader on the gas pump,
officials said.

One credit-card company told the state it has traced at least 100 fraud
cases

More:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cardtheft0124,0,6161
859.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

P. 

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