Cash machine card skimming: the simple way you can avoid it
It’s not even a technological solution. But with the number of cash machines having skimmers and cameras fitted to them by crims, here’s a simple method - on a par with entering the wrong password first time you go to a site from a link in an email, to check whether it’s bona fide - to not get skimmed:
Don’t use cash machines.
So how do I get cash, you wonder?
Simple. Cashback, at the supermarket. It’s free (generally), secure and you can be about as sure as you can that your PIN isn’t being copied.
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