As active participants in the evolving payment community since 1972, MagTek is leading the industry efforts to wipe out counterfeit card fraud once and for all.
Counterfeit cards have a huge cost on banks, processors, merchants, and consumers, and everyone will benefit from a collective effort to save over $100 billion dollars a year in fraud.
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Payment Card Fraud News
Payment Card Fraud News from Around the World-
Cards Discovered During Traffic Stop By Maryland State Trooper
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Vancouver Island Women Operated Scam For Over a Year
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Card Security Tips to Take on Your Vacation
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Suspect Caught on Surveillance Video in Philadelphia
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Supreme Court Judge's Info Skimmed at Maryland Starbucks
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Arrests Made in Central California
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Major Retailers Impacted by Remanufactured Cards
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Doesn't Discover Loss Until Opening Credit Card Statement
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Over 20 Residents of Bristol, R.I. Impacted
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Two Women Indicted for Credit Card Fraud
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108 Locations Impacted Throughout the South
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Retail Businesses in Northern Kentucky Victimized
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Man's Cards Maxed Out
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Two People in Chicago Suspected of Manufacturing Fraudulent Cards to Buy Items
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Suspect Filled Up Using Over 20 Cards With Pilfered Cardholder Information
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Australian Authorities Attempt to Quell Consumers' Anxiety
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Local Trading Post Falls Victim to "Younger" Woman Offender
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58 Counts Against Nigerian Man
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Two Bronx Men Arrested With Six Fraudulent Credit Cards in Their Possession
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Womens' Identities and Information Compromised While They Were At the Movies
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Arkansas Police Provide Tips on How To Avoid Holiday Shopping Fraud
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Man Provided Skimmer to Restaurant Employees to Steal Customers' Info
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$787,000 in Fraudulent Purchases Gets Him 7 Years
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Holiday Ruined by Loss of More Than $2,000
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He Purchased Thousands of Card Numbers from Pakistan
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ATMs and Gas Pumps Targeted
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Tuntutuliak Resident Reports Unauthorized Charges to Credit Card
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Man Arrested On 26 Counts of Credit Card Fraud and Identity Theft
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Stolen Credit Card Credentials Coded On To Gift Cards
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Two Florida Men Arrested in Possession of 15 Fraudulent Credit Cards
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Over 200 Little Ceasar's Customers' Cards Compromised
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Suspect Hits Macy's and Gas Stations With Bogus Cards
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Skimmers Used to Capture Sensitive Data
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Stolen Credit Card Info From Four States Funded Their Spending Spree
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Suspects Arrested For ID Fraud
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Group Part of Nationwide Ring Who Live Off Card Fraud
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Over $19,000 Charged to Victim's Card - That Was Still In His Wallet
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Pictures of Suspects, Police Ask For Your Help
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If Not Caught, Syndicate Could Have Netted $37 Million
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Metropasses Purchased With Counterfeit Cards
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Nearly 1,000 Pieces of I.D. Seized
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Aggravated Identity Theft Lands Men in Prison
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Numbers on Cards Did Not Match Numbers on Magstripes
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Culprit Spent $400 of Victim's Money at Home Depot
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South Florida Authorities Arrest Two Local Men
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Boston Man Sentenced for Stealing $560,000
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Orange County, California Bank One of Many Branches Victimized
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Two Local Women Sentenced to 3-5 Years for Credit Card Fraud
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Vast Number of Accounts Compromised
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Investigation Dubbed "Operation Swiper" Catches 13 Suspects
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While Skimming Threatens Debit Card Users
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Fraudsters Still Profiting Despite Monumental Effort to Thwart Them
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Card Making Equipment and Re-Encoded Cards Discovered in His Truck
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Stolen Card Info Used to Pay College Tuition and Car Insurance
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Multiple Accounts Compromised, Used In Spending Spree Across the State
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Employees Busted Skimming Customers' Credit Cards
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Suspicous Package in Raleigh, NC UPS Store Leads Police to Home of Ring Leader
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Sacramento Authorities Discover Thousands of Credit Card Numbers
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Card Skimmers Were Attached to Pumps at Gas Station
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Forged Credit Cards and Illegally Purchased Goods Found in Car
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Charges Using Stolen Accounts Popping Up All Over The Country
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ATMs, Gas Pumps and Restaurants Prime Targets of Card Skimmers
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Over 100 Florida Customers Get Fraud and Food to Go
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Florida Authorities Arrest 14 Suspects in Complex Fraud Ring
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Suspect Arraigned In Seattle, Allegedly Ran an On-Line Hacker Forum
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Financial Institutions Consider Limiting Customers' Non-PIN Transactions
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Restaurant Employee "Skimmed" Victim's Info
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Sophisticated Credit Card Making Lab Discovered in Their Apartment
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Counterfeit Cards Used in Maine and New Hampshire Wal-Marts
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More Than 240 Teaneck, NJ Consumers Compromised
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Suspect Deported From Mexico and Arrested in New York
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Crook Installed Skimming Devices at Florida Gas Stations
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14 Arrested in Connection With Skimming Card Info
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Surveillance Video Used to Identify Man Using Stolen Credit Card Numbers
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Customers Encouraged to Use PINs During All Transactions
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Man Illegally Purchased $200,000 Worth of Apple Products Using Skimmed Info
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Contacless Cards That Rely on RFID Can Be "Skimmed" Through the Air
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Credit Card Making System Discovered in One Woman's Dorm Room
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Suspect Charged $500,000 on Customer's Account
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Central California Man Bought Luxury Items Illegally
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10 Million Visa and MasterCard Accounts Compromised
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Details on the 50,000+ Accounts Compromised Coming Out Slowly
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248 Consumer Credit Card Accounts Compromised
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Thousands of Accounts Compromised
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Traffic Stop Uncovers Teens in Possession of Over 40 Fraudulent Cards
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Two Florida Men Caught with Almost a Hundred Fake Credit Cards
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Texas Tech Athletes Face Felony Charges
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Identity Thieves Make Illegal Purchases in Multiple States
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Suspect Charged Over $4,000 to Victim's Card
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How to Avoid Credit and Debit Card Fraud
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FBI Busts Well-Organized Crime Ring in Upscale Neighborhood
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Counterfeit Card Making Equipment Found in Mens' Possession
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Palisades Park Residents Victims of Identity Theft
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Suspects Purchased Thousands of Dollars of Gift Cards with Stolen Card Data at Target
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Skimmed Credit Card Data Put on Gift Cards and Used in Scam
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Large Ring of Fraudsters Being Brought to Justice
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Olympia, WA Teenager Took More Than Customers' Orders
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14 Customers File Reports, More Victims Anticipated
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Suspect Worked at Foothills Business Where He Skimmed Customers' Cards
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Scrutinize Your Accounts Today
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Nevada Attorney General Suggests Tips to Fend Off Holiday Scammers
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Protect Yourself This Holiday Season
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Authorities Apprehended Suspects Due to Erratic Driving
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Califorina Veterans the Real Victims of this Scam
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University of Georgia Student Sentenced to 70 Months for Fraud
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Restaurant Served Skimmed Customers' Payment Info When Settling the Bill
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Skimming Devices Suspected in Fleecing of Residents
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Pulled-Over Culprit Caught with Counterfeiting Gear, Cards and Cash
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Popular Chain Store Hit By Fraudsters, Keeping Mum on Details
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Victims From Michigan, Colorado, Texas and Georgia
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111 People Arrested Across U.S.
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San Rafael Police Track Thief After She Buys Gas With Fraudulent Card
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Messages Come From Local Numbers in the Twin Cities
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Loveland, CO Movie House Site of Card Breach
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Excessive Expenditures Rung Up on Cloned Government Card
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Man Faces Up to Ten Years in Prison
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Serial I.D. Thief Sentenced to 5 Years
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Payment Tidbits - Steve Sommers
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Philadelphia Area Mall Targeted by Crook
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Laguna Beach Police Confiscate Almost 100 Fraudulent Cards
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Paso Robles Police Alert Community to Be Cautious
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Drive-Thru Employee Skimmed Cards While Taking Orders in Minnesota
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Criminals Message Victims, Phishing For Sensitive Credit Card Information
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Card Info Stolen This Summer, Charges Made All The Way To Texas
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"Something Fishy" Tips Off Authorities
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Four Banks and Hundreds of Customers Lose Thousands
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Crook Stole Credit Card Numbers at Restaurant
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Over $700,000 Charged Up on Stolen Accounts
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Mugs & Jugs Restaurant Site of Skimming
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Personal Information Skimmed from Gas Station Used for Fraudulent Credit Card
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More Than 120 Victims Impacted
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Some Card Info Used Minutes Later in New York City
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Men Discovered with Computers and Mounds of Plastic Cards
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5 Arrested for Making Fake Cards
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Three NYC Men Arrested in Wake of Criminal Spree
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Service Station Location of the Breach
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Thieves Stole Credit Card Info and Purchased Gift Cards
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New Jersey Police Nab California Pair for Credit Card Fraud
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13 People Arrested in Florida
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$100,000 Illegally Charged to Compromised Accounts
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Michigan Workers' Accounts Used All Over U.S.
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In-Store PIN Pads Compromised
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Two Brothers Behind Massive Fraud Scheme
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Crooks Selling Stolen Card Data Online
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Maternity Clothing Website Used to Launder Money from Credit Cards
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Toronto Police Work With Wal-Mart Security to Break Fraud Ring
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Caught After Spending Over $15,000
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Stamford, CT Woman Caught Using Fraudulent Cards
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Twelve Victims File Complaints in Aspen, CO
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West Virginia Sees a Spike in Card Fraud
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Stolen Identity Used to Manufacture Bogus Cards
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People Who Sell Their Old Phones Prime Targets for Identity Theft
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Gang from Maryland Uses Stolen Card Info for Buying Spree
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A Breakdown of Who Orchestrates Card Fraud
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Connecticut Resident Discovers over $5,000 Spent Across Europe
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Police in Bakersfield Ask for Public's Help
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"A Higher Level" of Card Fraud Uncovered
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Bridgeport, CT Resident Arrested for Orchestrating Card Fraud
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Scam Artists Lure Generous People to Provide Credit Card Info
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Ridgewood, NJ School Production Costs Parents More Than Price of a Ticket
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Automated Gas Pumps Targeted
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Central Florida Latest Area Hit
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Man Traveled through Ohio and Pennsylvania Using Stolen Card Info
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Waitress Used Customer's Credit Card Info to Buy Personal Items
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Harford, Maryland Sherrif Arrests Suspect after Fraud Discovered
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Information Stolen in St. Louis used in California and New York
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Airline Employee Steals $500,000 from Flyers
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Police Offer Tips to Avoid Card Fraud
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Mom Did Not Authorize Use, It Is Still Fraud
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How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
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Rikers Island inmate spearheads fraud ring from the inside
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Two Massachusetts Men face felony charges
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59 Accounts Breached in latest skimming attack
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Learn how card theft is cheap and easy
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You can love your children, just don't trust them with your card.
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Tips to secure your Credit Card information
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Sierre Madre falls victim to "break out" skimming attack
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Wal-Mart employee arrested for skimming customers' credit card information
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Information on 110,000 customers compromised
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Payment Database Breached at Major Retailer
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An app for stealing credit card information?
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Four suspects apprehended by Secret Service
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Cards skimmed as drivers sit in their cars
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Bogus credit card helps catch card fraudsters.
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Dozens arrested in "skimming" scheme.
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Cleveland Federal Reserve Hacked
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Square allows easy credit card acceptence -- does it also allow easy credit card skimming?
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Another reason to review your accounts.
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A new method of card fraud that happens in minutes.
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Crooks devise simple, inexpensive new ways to compromise payment terminals
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An increasingly common high-tech method experts say makes up just a fraction of a $10 billion international criminal trade.
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A California-based security company says its Magneprint's system uses a card's magnetic stripe like a fingerprint to prevent counterfeiting
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The Jamaican Observer on how MagTek's MagnePrint can reduce the $245 million card fraud in Jamaica alone.
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Hotels can keep guests' credit card data secure -- it's good business.
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Debit and Credit Card Fraud strike Scotiabank Jamaica
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Emerging Technologies, Trends Give Fraudsters Greater Access to Customer Data
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It doesn't take the brilliance of a rocket scientist for a nefarious employee to hack into a hotel computer and steal your credit card info
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Is it really time for the US to invest in, and move to EMV when the approach to magnetic stripe fingerprinting is simpler, more cost-effective and more seamless to consumers, merchants and issuers?
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A great presentation from Barnaby Jack at the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas
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The losses are expected to total several million dollars.
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Thieves are using high-tech skimmers to steal account information
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The number of domestic ATM skimming attacks is five times higher today than even a year ago
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Pop quiz: Can you be a victim of credit or debit card fraud if you still have the physical card?
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Account balances under $100,000 need not apply
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Skimming devices attached to cash machines to read users' card details increasingly return their data to the criminals via SMS text messages
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"Cloned" debit cards have been used to steal more than $200,000 from Long Island banks between April and the end of May, police said.
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The FBI in the United States has smashed two Bulgarian crime rings accused of defrauding Las Vegas and Phoenix area car dealers out of $1.6 million
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Brian Krebs does it again with great reporting!
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A federal grand jury in Connecticut indicted three Queens residents on charges related to alleged participation in an ATM “skimming” scheme.
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Thousands of dollars in unauthorized withdrawals were made from bank accounts
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Skimmer scams are hitting cities across the country
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Smartcards may be the future, but legacy payment cards still need support
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More than 100 customers have said they have found fraudulent charges on their debit cards
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Written by Evan Schuman of Storefrontbacktalk.com
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The hacker who gained notoriety for helping to purloin millions of credit and debit card numbers has been sentenced to 20 years in prison
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Payment card fraud can be a multimillion-dollar racket
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A relatively inexpensive technology could wipe out the multi-billion dollar costs of payment card fraud
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Device Discovered by ATM Technician in VA
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"According to the industry, ATM skimming is becoming the No. 2 way in which credit and debit cards are becoming compromised,"
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Another week, another data breach affecting some Cincinnati area bank customers
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Credit Card Numbers of 20 Consumers Used Across the Country
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Restaurants Are a Prime Target
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MagnePrint I.D.s counterfeit cards at point of purchase
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While credit cards and debit cards may look almost identical, not all plastic is the same
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Book Lovers Become Potential Identity Theft Victims
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5,000 Cards Blocked After New Fraudulent Transactions Reported
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...allegedly taking $2 million by using credit card skimming technology at gas pumps
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Midtown Manhattage Parking Attendants Skim Customers' Card Info
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Parking Attendants Skim Card Info in Manhattan Garage
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Canadian Businesses Lose Millions
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Houston Suspect Could Face Over 300 Charges
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Retailers are using their heads to combat fraud involving the use of counterfeit credit, debit and gift cards
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QwickPay, the safest way
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - Q&A With Heartland CIO Steven Elefant
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Five Institutions Say Customers Received Fraudulent Calls
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INITIATIVE TO WIPE OUT CREDIT CARD FRAUD
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Suspects Explain Cards Were Given To Them By Man Who Would Forgive Their Gambling Debt
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Justice Department Claims One of the Largest Schemes Ever Uncovered
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Customers and Employees' Credit and Debit Card Information Stolen
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A former ringleader of a top internet carding site run secretly by the FBI has pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom.
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Online service providers will have to improve their authentication measures or lose out to competitors, an international survey has concluded.
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Over $85,000 Stolen Via Card Skimming
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Groups in Rio Grande Valley Carry Out Multiple Frauds
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Avoid the Chargeback Fees and Hassles - Simply Stop Fraud
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Millions Lost Using Card Data Purchased from Ukraine
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Admitted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez has identified two Russian accomplices who helped him hack into numerous companies and steal more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers.
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Counterfeit credit/debit card fraud accounts for billions of dollars. To make matters worse, experts agree it is the number-one way terrorists fund themselves. We need to change that.
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23 Hotel Guests Impacted by Repeat Offender
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This is the time of year that credit-card and debit-card use is at its peak. It is also the time for credit-card fraud.
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From The Tech Herald - Security
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Authorities Offer Tips to Prevent Being Victimized
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PYMNTS.com recently had the honor to speak with MagTek's CEO Mimi Hart and asked her to share her thoughts on this potentially game-changing device.
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Man Suspected of Selling Stolen Credit Card Credentials Online
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Enterprises should rethink their approach to IT security, panelists say
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The WSJ takes aim at counterfeit card fraud...
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Keep your credit card or debit card info out of the hands of scammers with these counter-fraud tips.
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Number of Victimized Shoppers Likely to Grow
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New Jersey Attorney General Declares Victims Span the Country
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Steve Potisk interview with Tom Patterson - Podcast
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This is a recap of MagTek's event at BAI's Retail Delivery Conference where Tom Patterson exposes the links between counterfeit card fraud and terrorism. - Podcast
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Media discussion on the Campaign to Wipe Out Counterfeit Card Fraud
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Card fraud's devastating ramifications, the extent of which few fully understand (2009-11-16)
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BAI Retail Delivery 2009 - Podcast
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Felony Charges Follow Discovery of Fraudulent Cards
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Number of Victims Grows, Secret Service Brought In
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Watch FBI's Shawn Henry and CSIS's Jim Lewis scare you with stories...
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Recording the magnetic fingerprint (MagnePrint) gains critical momentum...
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Credit card skimming devices found loaded with info...
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$5,000 Expected Fee Becomes $35,000 Bail
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Hacker Group Used Old Key Cards at Machines Around the World
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Reaffirms Support for Card Authentication Technology
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Counterfeit Cards and Skimming Equipment Found
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Five Charges of Credit Card Fraud Against Her
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At least 18 bills have been introduced as Congress considers digital disaster
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Good news piece on credt card fraud using skimmers on gas pumps in North Carolina.
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A FIFTH of all Australians are victims of credit card fraud...
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Fraud, Security Raise Cost Concerns for ATM Managers, Report Says
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Merchants and Issuers focused on who pays, instead of who saves.
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MagTek's cost-netural plan to reduce counterfeit card fraud gains PCI notice...
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Pair arrested in Thailand with counterfeit credit cards.
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ATM machines and 2500 bank accounts compromised
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Visa takes fighting fraud seriouslly-- and so should you!
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As the campaign to wipe out counterfeit cards goes to the hill...
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Skimming works on debit cards too, but so does the anti-counterfeiting....
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Not only steals your banking ID/PWD, but takes your money at the same time!
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Employeed Arrested for Skimming and Spending Customers' Card Information
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I wonder what the sentence for credit card fraud in Saudi Arabia is?
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Security expert Tom Patterson talks to CBS News about card skimmers.
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