Skimtacular: All-in-One ATM Skimmer
Summary: A customer at a bank in California's San Fernando Valley recovered an all-in-one ATM skimmer built as a card-slot overlay, powered by a phone battery connected to the card reader and a circuit board for a video camera. The device has a pinhole camera that captures timestamped footage of victims entering PINs, and the numeral "5" engraved on it suggests it was one in a series produced by the same maker; police in the region had no leads on who placed it.
Key Takeaway: The skimmer combines card reading, a hidden camera, and its own power supply in one overlay, so a PIN captured on timestamped video is enough to clone a card and drain the account. The engraved "5" means this was not a one-off: at least four others from the same production run are unaccounted for.
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