NEW PROBLEM: After the introduction of credit cards with chip solved to a great deal of challenges by skimming, but now the criminals again have cracked the code. (Photo: AP)
A few years ago, the biggest challenge that criminals read the magnetic stripe on the card by attaching various devices on ATMs or card readers.
Simply by the introduction of credit cards with chip, or the so-called chip, removed to a large extent this problem and increased safety for users.
But now the criminals cracked the code enough once, writes the Swedish newspaper Expressen.
Worried
A report from Europol’s department for cyber crime, warns of a new and sophisticated form of skimming that replicate the chip in the card, and also read the pin code.
equipment used to perform the fraud consists of a thin circuit board of plastic that is inserted into the slot on the card terminal. Printed circuit board takes so contrary and stores information from the cards used.
German police have identified two such cases, and it was these things that put Europol on the trail of the new method they now fear will spread to other countries.
See also: In these countries, the risk of card fraud greatest
Historically low in Norway
Although constantly warned against new methods for card fraud also in Norway, then show Visas own figures for last year that the fraud against Norwegian cardholders are at a historically low level.
only 0.017 percent of all Norwegian Visa transactions are susceptible to fraud. 17 of 100,000 transactions in other words. That is less than half of the European average.
Besides traveling outside Europe, there are scams online that represent the greatest threat to Norwegian card users. Both in terms of e-commerce and so-called phishing e-mails (customers who relinquishes card information after they have received e-mails from scammers editor).
See also: Online banking and card fraud equivalent to two Nokas-ran in the year
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