The Ballyfermot Blogger

As of yet unnamed “BANKS have promised to reimburse thousands of customers who saw their cash card details stolen from criminally- adapted ‘point of sale’ machines” What does this mean to you? You’ve been scammed, your credit card information was stolen IN SUPERMARKETS on Friday just gone and they were sent over seas by criminals who created a new forged edition of you credit card or bank cash cards and are happily spending your cash right now.

The Banks tell us right now that “as many as 20,000 cards had been compromised in the scam”from “47 bogus devices” How was this done, well they’re not saying but let me tell you how this was achieved. These shops and supermarkets were all paid an unscheduled personal visit, in “a small number of stores in the northeast pretending to be engineers working for various banks” These strangers were accepted as the real Macoy and none were asked for id, they proceeded to fit false fronts on cash machines with card readers and hidden cameras to see your fingers type in your code, unbelievably they were also given access to the networks, where they installed “packet sniffers” to scan all of the credit card swipes and key presses that took place while you paid for your groceries at the checkout as they travelled done the wires.

Deputy data protection commissioner Gary Davies said his office was concerned over how the data was stolen so easily, “We’re surprised it happened” said Mr Davis rather reassuringly all the while not telling the public exactly where and what places of business this fraud took place in is a betrayal of your trust . I’m sure they decision was made to protect the reputation of the Companies involved above you, why? , to ensure your continued loyal spending support and to keep you blissfully unaware. I imagine your reality check would cost them some money. “Don’t let the sheep know that the wolves were here, after all they’re only sheep” you can quote me

If i were you I’d cancel my Credit Card and Bank Card and suffer the inconvenience of going without for a few days, instead of finding yourself being arrested as a paedophile because somebody in Belgium has signed up on your behalf with your Credit Card

Now there’s something that the Bank would wash their hands of rapido and it’s an extremely frightening thought, after all who would believe it wasn’t you and your just a sheep for the slaughter

So have they informed you yet, i thought not.
Read the full story Independent.ie

What you didn’t hear about this, I’m not surprised, after all a laptop “lost or stolen” from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General in April 2007 contained mostly Senior Citizens Information. For all we can tell the laptop was accidentally misplaced from the Auditor General Office? is there no security guards, cameras or sign in books? When was it discovered to be missing? We’re not told the information was even encrypted, this is a good indication that it wasn’t and anybody could see it.

Let me put it this way, stolen bank account details are worth £400 Sterling on the black market so in theory if these unlucky people had bank account information stored by the social welfare in their records then this information could be sold for an astounding €193,609,962 today, never mind what money that could be in the accounts to be withdrawn!

Full RTE News story here