According to the British association Apacs reports , in 2008 in the UK there was an 18% increase in the number of fraud forgery of payment cards (losses are £ 169,8 million) and an 39% increase in the number of identity data theft from the cards (£ 47,4 million losses). And this situation is typical not only for the Foggy Albion. One of the most high-profile crimes of the last year occurred on 8 November, 2008. According to the FBI conclusion, this was the largest in the history card attack by the number of participants, level of coordination and one-time loss: 49 cities of the world, from New York to Moscow and Hong Kong, 137 ATMs, nearly 100 forged cards and only ... 30 minutes. Result: $ 9 million of cash was stolen from the ATMs.

This proves that daily the banks are more often facing not only the single criminals, but also the international organized criminal groups that specialize in card data machinations. Judging from the recent events, 2009 will not be a relieve for the bankers. Recently, by installing skimmers on ATMs, in the Australian ANZ bank, in particular, the fraudsters have stolen the data of more than 5000 card owners. As a result, with the help of the forged cards the criminals have withdrawn from the ATMs around $ 500 000 cash One of the loudest events of March 2009 was the identification of the virus on several ATMs in Russia, which intercepted the card data and preserved it until the criminal approached the ATM, entered the secret code and got a printout of the stolen personal data with the help of the cheque printer. In the arsenal of the modern carders are rather advanced technologies. At present it is not only a «Lebanese loop». These are the skimmers to steal personal data from the cards, and keyboard overlays, and hidden video cameras to intercept the PIN-code with the possibility of data transmission, even in a wireless way. ABeing the specialists with 14 years of experience in the field of ATMs and specialized bank solutions, we recommend our clients to pay attention on the card business security in advance/ In order to minimize the possible harm from the actions of the cheaters, we offer to «arm» with the arsenal with a whole range of solutions for the ATM hardware, including • antiskimming trims • protective trims on the keyboard; • integrated video control systems • software products ProMaskTrack2, ProMaskJornal and ProSecureJornal from the ProSecure complex. More information you can get from the specialists of the banking solutions department.