From: "William Black" 
Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe uk.finance uk.rec.driving
Subject: Re: Motorists hit by card clone scam
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:08:26 GMT


"Graham Murray"  wrote in message 
news:87ps5xki2s.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk...
> "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?

It would make life difficult if,  for example,  you filled your car up in 
Leeds,  jumped on a couple of planes and then used your card to get some 
cash in Bombay twelve hours later...

And yes,  it is possible,  just...

-- 
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.