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Better Business Bureau is warning about
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recent card skimming incidents at local
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stores and it turns out there's also
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something called card shimming USS A's
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Britney Taylor is here now with more on
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the difference between the two Britney
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hi Darren experts say both are very
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difficult to detect skimming involves a
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bulk your device shimming goes inside
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the chip reader but both have the goal
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of discreetly obtaining your banking
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information experts say shimming is the
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new skimming numerous community ities
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across Connecticut are investigating the
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different tactics hackers are using to
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get the numbers on your bank cards
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Christian Johnson with the Better
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Business Bureau breaks it down for us
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skimming is what most people have heard
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of these are big bulky wobbly devices
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that are placed at ATMs and at different
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payment terminals Johnson says skimming
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only works with swiping shimming on the
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other hand uses the microchip on your
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credit or debit card they put a tiny
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little shim we're talking like paper
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size of a credit card inside the chip
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reader it's actually enabled with
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technology and storage so it can
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actually take off everything that is
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stored in our credit card it can capture
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it as soon as we pop it into the payment
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terminal lately grocery stores have been
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the target big wi's in nagat and
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planville Leons in Prospect this Walmart
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and Cromwell and most recently Stratford
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police releasing this photo of a suspect
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they believe is involved in the scam at
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another Walmart on July 18th it's left
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some customers on high alert creeped out
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I'm getting sketchy you know I'm like I
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just went to the bank pulled out cash
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this Quinnipiac cyber security expert
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says your information can sometimes be
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transmitted instantly some of the more
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sophisticated devices May transmit
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devices to a hacker who might be sitting
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in a store parking lot they might not
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have to actually walk in others less
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sophisticated maybe they need to
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actually walk can experts say you should
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turn on purchase notifications on your
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phone and closely monitor your bank
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statements as well as using cash or
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contactless payment with a credit card
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as opposed to a debit card something
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that's not always possible at places
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like Walmart they they don't do tap here
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they do insert my husband says make sure
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jiggle and Stratford police says that
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they're still working to determine this
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latest incident if it was a case of
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shimming or skimming and if you believe
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you've been hacked you're advised to
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contact your local police department
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Britney Taylor News 8
