Credit card fraudsters: Beware the ‘Skim Reaper’
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Patrick Traynor, a cybersecurity expert, was in New York in February working with police to help identify a way to detect credit card skimmers on ATMs when he got a financial fraud alert: His own information had been stolen while he was in town.
It wasn’t the first time. In five years he’d had his personal information stolen by credit card skimmers — devices illegally installed on ATMs and gas station pumps that “skim” consumer credit card numbers — a half-dozen times.
“I’ve got 15 years of experience in the field of information security.