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	<title>Thiefhunters in Paradise &#187; Credit card fraud</title>
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	<description>or, High and Dry on the Streets of Elsewhere</description>
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		<title>Shoulder-surfing credit-card thief—part 2</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/06/shoulder-surfing-thief-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/06/shoulder-surfing-thief-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob had just made contact with the shoulder-surfing thief… Pirouetting, I went to find Kun Chang, our film director, who&#8217;d been with us all day, along with his crew. When we&#8217;d given chase to our quarry, they&#8217;d followed our progress from a distance, eventually taking up a static, central position. Now I stood with Kun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shoulder-surfing credit-card thief</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/06/shoulder-surfing-thief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We started early at Gare de Lyon in Paris, on the hunt for a particular thief. He&#8217;s known for a specific M.O., and for his violent nature. He stands in line at train station ticket machines and watches as passengers purchase tickets with credit cards. Most credit cards issued outside of the U.S. require a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas pump skimmers attached in 11 seconds</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/03/gas-pump-skimmers/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2010/03/gas-pump-skimmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news from Las Vegas Metro&#8217;s Kim Thomas, the fraud cop featured in my story on credit card skimmers hidden in gas pumps. Detective Thomas writes: I read the post you did with my picture. It was very impressive. At the end you said a thief attached a skimmer in eight minutes. I just wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware hotel phone scam</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/12/hotel-phone-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/12/hotel-phone-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Heads up, travelers. Beware the clever new scam happening in hotels now. In order to thwart it, proactive properties are placing notes like this one into guest rooms: Dear Guest: Lately, scam artists are attempting to secure credit card numbers from guests in hotels. They&#8217;re calling guest rooms at random and claiming to be hotel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Bernanke&#8217;s ID thieves did it</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/09/bernankes-id-thieves/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/09/bernankes-id-thieves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna Bernanke hung her purse on the back of a chair at Starbucks. It was stolen and, soon after, she and Ben became victims of identity theft. It&#8217;s extremely simple to steal a purse that isn&#8217;t attached to a person. It could be on the back of a chair, on an empty chair, or on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A typical ATM skimmer scam</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/08/a-typical-atm-skimmer-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/08/a-typical-atm-skimmer-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader wrote of an ATM experience which, soon after, led to $9,000 in fraudulent withdrawals. He was abroad, but this happens at ATMs everywhere; and so frequently that I think it&#8217;s worth posting as a reminder. As I was using an atm at a money exchange kiosk, I received the cash I wanted but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shoulder-surfers and pseudo-cops in Sweden</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/08/atm-credit-card-fraud-sweden/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/08/atm-credit-card-fraud-sweden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to wail even in Sweden, because the country has long been perceived as enjoying a relatively low crime rate. And it did. But not any more. The day I arrived in Stockholm, the paper featured a spread on thieves lurking at ATMs who preyed on the elderly. The scam stars a shoulder-surfer lying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skimmers and credit card fraud (more)</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/07/credit-card-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/07/credit-card-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Skimmers, officially called magnetic card readers, capture the data on a card&#8217;s magnetic strip. Exactly what information is that? Credit and debit cards have three &#8220;tracks&#8221; of data. Track 1 stores your name, account number and expiration date, and discretionary data to verify the PIN and security code. This information goes to the point of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-tech identity theft today</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/new-skimmers/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/new-skimmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/?p=1131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[• Identity theft is now the number one crime in the world. • Las Vegas is number one in the U.S. for ID theft; even though it&#8217;s estimated that only 20% of the crimes are reported. • The FBI estimates that seven out of every ten stolen dollars end up in Las Vegas. There&#8217;s more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skimmers for credit card fraud</title>
		<link>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/skimmers/</link>
		<comments>http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters/2009/06/skimmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bambi Vincent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit card fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little background, as reference for my next post: A skimmer is a battery-operated device smaller than a deck of cards with a slot for swiping credit cards. It reads and stores data embedded in the magnetic strip on the back of the card. Restaurant waiters are the typical recruit, given the contraption and requested [...]]]></description>
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