Criminals have the technology to make high-profile bank robberies obsolete. One of the most devious ways thieves have for stealing credit cards and other data is with point-of-sale (POS) "skimmers"— devices that grab your info as you swipe at a store or ATM. And unfortunately, they've gotten much more sophisticated in recent years. Here's how they work. Skimming usually works in one of two ways. In a place like a restaurant, an employee might take a credit card out of sight and run it through a skimmer to capture the info before running it through the normal sales system. But in places like a gas station or ATM, criminals can place devices right over a real terminal to grab the data and run...
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