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Tampered card readers used to rob 350 Gatineau shoppers: police


Thieves have swiped money from the bank accounts of at least 350
shoppers in Gatineau, Que., and may have stolen sensitive banking
information of up to 1,600 people using tampered debit card readers,
police say.


Ah ..the latest cyber crime.


He would not identify the stores or say how much money was stolen.


Umm...ok ...gatineau somewhere... If I go there I don't dare spend
money on anything for fear of having my bank account emptied.


LeMay added that the scam is probably carried out by several organized
groups of criminals who work in teams to distract store clerks and
steal the original card readers while store clerks aren't looking.

"They modify it and they go back and put the modified PIN pad," said
LeMay. "And from there they get the information they need to clone
cards."

The modified card readers store the card numbers and PINs so the
criminals can later download the information, make copies of the cards
and use them to withdraw money from bank machines.


Charming people...very technical our criminal element in this country.


Gatineau Chamber of Commerce spokesman Antoine Normand said he feared
business will be hurt if customers lose confidence in the popular
payment method


The Customers themselves you don't give a rats behind about of course,
you're with the chamber of commerce ,thats not your problem. Let those
foolish people lose every single dime of their life savings ! As long
as they keep spending and your business's do well your job is done !



Police released information about the Gatineau debit card fraud just
one day after the owner of the Winners and Home Sense retail chains
confirmed hackers had broken into a company computer system that
stored information about credit and debit card transactions, cheques
and merchandise returns.



Ok , don't buy at Winners (a grocery chain) or Home Sense (furnature
chain) on anythign except cash...

scratch that. Pay cash only for everything and only use bank machines
... from a bank. Not a corner store.

Welcome to the new century.