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Originally Posted by Lumen Miner
TO ALL SYDNEY RESIDENTS
After speaking to many people, it looks like Sydney is getting done over now.
I would advise every person with a savings card, to change your pin immediatley.
Thornleigh / Magraiths Hill Mac Donalds had a skimming swipe eftos unit dropped off at there a week and a half ago. Anyone that went there could of had their card details skimmed. I have confirmed this with the bank.
Three team members at Thornleigh Bunnings, whom did not go to Mac Donalds also had money taken from their account. I have my suspitions that a device was installed at Thornleigh Bunnings also as we all took money out of the same unit. I have alerted the bank and our loss prevention to this and they are investigating...
This is only the beginning... I think Sydney is in for a shock.
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Hi,
Yes, similar thing happened to me and my wife (4 weeks apart). I tried to get money out of an ATM and it ate my card and said on the screen "card retained, please contact your bank". I thought..What the ..... When I rang the bank and told them, they said my card was used at an ATM or Eftpos terminal that was known to have had a skimmed device attached to it so they AUTOMATICALLY cancelled my ATM card as a precaution. I got the new card 4 days later and they stayed on the phone with me to check all my recent transactions which were all fine. Luckily, this premptive strike by my bank (Suncorp) caught the issue before anyone could do anything. Similar thing, my wife then got an SMS (the day of the Houghy mentioned news story on ACA) from St George with the same result, again, no money left our accounts fraudulently.
The situtation was that we never used the same locations as each other so the area of penetration was obviously large. It wasnt about covering your pin, it was obviously the replaced EFTPOS machine handset that got our cards. Ironically, I noticed a few weeks ago that Maccas near my house now has a combination lock securing the EFTPOS handset to a security cable just to ward against this sort of scam.
Even so, I now sign ALL Credit transactions rather than use the pin. Coz if they aint got the PIN, they havent got much as they cant withdraw cash from your account without it.
Sorry to hear your misfortune, I am sure it will be fine and you should get your money back soon..
Cheers
Chris