Fake ATM tricks customers in China

Fake ATM tricks customers in China
Tags: Asia, Australia & Pacific, Retail / Off-Premises, Security
June 23, 2010

It's bad enough when an ATM has been hacked with a skimmer that steals data from users — worse still to have an entire ATM be a fake.

That's exactly what has happened in China, according to AFP. In what is being called the first scam of its kind in that country, scammers in Beijing bought an ATM from a manufacturer and deployed it on a busy corner. Transactions ended in an error message, after the user's data had been compromised.