AtmSkimmers

A couple of weeks ago, Chinese police arrested a man who installed a fake ATM in Beijing that managed to steal the account information of unsuspecting customers -- information that was later used to empty their bank accounts. The ATM, which was purchased from a legitimate manufacturer, was...

A ski mask, a gun and a getaway car -- used to be, that's all you needed to pull off a bank robbery. But nowadays, that's so old school. In what's becoming an increasingly common practice, if you're planning to rob a bank, an ATM skimmer is the way to go. And as terrible as it is for customers,...

Consumerist reports that within the space of a few days, three readers across the country have spotted "skimmers" grafted onto the card slots of their local ATMs for WaMu and Chase banks. Are these devices on the rise?Skimmers, in case the term is new to you, are teeny electronic devices that can...