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How to spot a Dodgy ATM
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Steven Murdoch, a fraud expert at the University of Cambridge, says: 'It is quite easy to capture someone's card and Pin number from a cash machine. Fraudsters now hide devices inside machines, rather than placing them on the outside where they are easy to spot.
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Hilarious that anyone would believe this for a minute in the first place.
Just imagine that your PIN was 5775 - would the Police come everytime you use the ATM ?
indeed, when you enter your PIN, the ATM simply submits the number to the chip on the card, the chip can only respond success or failure, there is no "panic" response.0
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