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Brasillian Credit Card crooks use ThinkPad ATM to steal CC

#1 Post by hoax32 » Wed Dec 18, 2013 10:59 pm

I haven't been around for a while now due to college and work but I still look by. :)
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Anyways I just watched a video of how brasillians chip ATM's to steal your Credit Card info - in the video you can clearly see a thinkPad motherboard:

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Re: Brasillian Credit Card crooks use ThinkPad ATM to steal CC

#2 Post by Medessec » Thu Dec 19, 2013 2:44 am

Oh my gawd, wow. Pretty convoluted, wacky way to steal credit card information if you ask me. They essentially made a bogus ATM out of another ATM shell, with a T60 planar and screen flipped back to back and... just crazy duct taped together. These guys are pretty insane.

It's like... you know ads and trojanware on the web? That's like a real-life, hardware/physical equivalent. :lol:
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Re: Brasillian Credit Card crooks use ThinkPad ATM to steal CC

#3 Post by Temetka » Thu Dec 19, 2013 5:13 am

Yeah,

That is a pretty elaborate setup to steal CC info.
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Re: Brasillian Credit Card crooks use ThinkPad ATM to steal CC

#4 Post by ZaZ » Thu Dec 19, 2013 5:42 am

I saw one time on the Discovery or Hostory channels I think how people figured out how to flash a flashlight into the coin slot of a slot machine and get it to pay out. You wonder how people come up with this stuff.
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Re: Brasillian Credit Card crooks use ThinkPad ATM to steal CC

#5 Post by Medessec » Thu Dec 19, 2013 5:49 am

people figured out how to flash a flashlight into the coin slot of a slot machine and get it to pay out.
It is wrong, but it seems to be a lot smoother of a method than tearing apart a Thinkpad T60 and duct taping the bits together in an ATM shell. It just seems like a lot of work... no doubt it's kinda cool though.
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Re: Brasillian Credit Card crooks use ThinkPad ATM to steal CC

#6 Post by Brad » Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:54 am

You haven't heard?

A new category for the Rio summer Olympics in 2016. The World Cup in a couple of months will be a test run.

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Re: Brasillian Credit Card crooks use ThinkPad ATM to steal CC

#7 Post by Saucey » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:24 am

Looks like I might be able to log onto the a forums if I go to see the World Cup with one of those. :P
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