Growing up reading true crime and mystery writing will give you a skewed perspective on the efficacy of evil. I remember running to my mom when I was young to tell her about the way the bank robber cut through the floor in an issue of the Hardy Boys Casefiles. My mom promptly put me on a Hardy Boys diet and pointed me toward Roald Dahl.
Jean-Luc Goddard said that cinema is the most beautiful form of fraud in the world, but I think movies might have a run for their money with this deceptively evil contraption that fraudsters use to nab your credit card number. They are so well made (note even the plastic is the same color and texture) that even the best of us would be fooled. I know I would have been.
“Pictured below is what’s known as a skimmer, or a device made to be affixed to the mouth of an ATM machine and secretly swipe credit and debit card information when bank customers slip their cards into the machines to pull out money.”
From Would You Have Spotted the Fraud? — Krebs on Security Via dpstyles: mikehudack: nickdouglas
