Consumers need to be wary credit card fraud
February 8, 2008 by admin
Filed under News, News-Credit-Cards
Consumers need to be wary of credit card fraud when paying for goods in shops, one security expert has claimed. 
The CPP warned that there is a risk that sometimes businesses work in collusion with fraudsters to deceive customers by using two machines – one that they skim the card through before putting it into the chip and pin machine.
Danny Harrison, a security expert at CPP said: “It’s something we need to be careful of. If somebody does take a card we need to be watching what they do with it.”
He added that chip and pin machines can easily be fitted with cloning devices but it should also be easy to recognise when a device has been tampered with.
According to research conducted by CPP, nearly one in five consumers have had their card cloned when using either an ATM or chip and pin machine.
The number of fraud and forgery acts committed in England increased dramatically in 1999 when compared against the number of cases during 1993 to 1999.
