Fraud and Midweek

Last night I got another chance to go on about fakes, frauds and scams, this time on TV3's Midweek with Colette Fitzpatrick. If you missed it or want to watch it again click here for the TV3 catch-up. Una Dillon from the Irish Payment Services Organisation (IPSO) was also on the show talking about how ATM and credit card skimming works. And then there was the shameless plugs again...

SKIMMERS caught

Last week two Londoners were sentenced after being caught red-handed trying to fit a card reader to a cash register at a hardware shop in Galway city. Akeen Mohammed Aziz (22) and Ataaib Khan (22) both from Walthamstow, London were convicted of possessing an electronic PIN pad device with the intention of using it to commit a theft at B&Q, Rahoon on 28 January, 2009. The pair had tried to pose as technicians employed to service cash registers. They both got nine months in prison, which is lucky considering that most other organised card-skimmers who got caught have got four year sentences.