Skimmers are devices that crooks put over point of sale terminals (or - sometimes - ATMs) to steal your credit card number. Worse, they can steal your ATM PIN number if you use the card as a debit card.
It's astonishingly quick for the Bad Guys to install these things. Watch:
One guy distracts the clerk and the other does the dirty deed. Yikes.
I posted a couple years back on how to spot one of these, and it's worth reading if you didn't see it then.
If they're not busy, I try to mention these things to the clerk. The majority of them have no clue about checking the reader for overlays. Totally oblivious on the subject. The managers/owners are not doing their job properly. Maybe if the cost of customer reimbursement came out of their own pocket?
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