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How to check for skimming devices on ATMs and gas pumps

Posted on February 21, 2025

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There’s a very dangerous scam going full force right now that puts every penny in your bank account at immediate risk.

Scammers have been installing skimming devices on the card readers that are built into ATMs for years, and now they have branched out to the card readers on gas pumps.

Truth be told, there are probably skimmers in use on some of the gas pumps in your own town at this very minute. [Read more…]

Here’s an easy way to avoid sky-high ATM fees

Posted on May 4, 2024

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Like most folks these days you probably enjoy the convenience of being able to pull up to an ATM and withdraw a little cash when you need it.

But it’s a pretty good bet that you aren’t all that happy with the fees you have to pay for that convenience.

If you’re lucky enough to have a bank that doesn’t charge their customers ATM fees, that’s great!

Otherwise you probably have to pay a fee every time you use a different bank’s ATM. [Read more…]

Guess what? Your bank’s ATMs are probably running the soon to be abandoned Windows XP!

Posted on January 19, 2014

atm By now you’re probably aware that Microsoft is planning to stop supporting Windows XP with security updates on April 8, effectively leaving the millions of computers that are still running it after that date wide open to hackers.

What you probably don’t know is that approximately 95% of the 420,000 ATMs currently being used in the U.S. are running Windows XP!

While a large percentage of those Windows XP-based ATMs can be updated with newer hardware components that will allow them to be upgraded to Windows 7, many of them will simply have to be replaced outright.

But there’s a problem… [Read more…]