Strathclyde Police Warning on Credit Card Fraud and Other Associated Scams
Every year in the UK millions of pounds are lost as a result of credit card fraud.
Criminals and their
associates use various means to obtain your details, but there are steps you...
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Strathclyde Police Warning on Credit Card Fraud and Other Associated Scams
Every year in the UK millions of pounds are lost as a result of credit card fraud.
Criminals and their
associates use various means to obtain your details, but there are steps you can take to help fight the problem.
Strathclyde Police Warning on Card Skimming and Cloning
In this type of fraud a device, created to look like the card entry point on the cash machine, is fitted over the genuine
slot to passively skim the information encoded on the magnetic strip of the card.
These details are stored and
subsequently used fraudulently.
Once they have successfully obtained the cardholder s details, fraudsters will focus their attention on finding out the
corresponding Personal Identification Number.
PINs can be compromised in two ways.
Firstly, by shoulder surfing,
whereby the fraudster will tailgate behind the cardholder and look over their shoulder as they enter their number.
Secondly, there is increasing evi
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