From: Graham Murray 
Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe uk.finance uk.rec.driving
Subject: Re: Motorists hit by card clone scam
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:50:03 +0100
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"Tom Bradbury"  writes:

> Maxwell Keegel, first secretary of the Sri Lankan High Commission in London, 
> said: "They extract the pin and details from the cards and within minutes 
> this information is sent to LTTE agents who operate in remote parts of the 
> world, as far away as Thailand and Indonesia.
>
> "And the money goes unwittingly from people's accounts and ends up going 
> into the LTTE's arms activities."

Surely it must raise (hopefully very loud) alarm bells if a card is used
in quick succession in two widely separated locations. As it is claimed
that the PIN is captured, this implies that the fraud involves
cardholder present transaction (or withdraw from ATMs) using a cloned
magnetic stripe card. As the same card cannot legitimately be in two
places at once or be moved too rapidly from one place to another, should
this type of fraud not be easier to detect than CNP frauds?