Audio Transcript

Mollie Halpern: Eurasian organized crime groups are capturing credit and ATM card information with virtually undetectable devices. It’s called ATM skimming.

Kimberly DeLeo: These bad guys are very technologically savvy.

Halpern: I’m Mollie Halpern of the Bureau and this is “FBI, This Week.” A device called a boot is placed inside or over an ATM card slot so that it can capture the account information on the magnetic strip of your card. A camera or a keyboard overlay is used to steal PIN numbers. Supervisory Special Agent Kimberly DeLeo says a lot of detail goes into concealing those devices.

DeLeo: They sand them down and they paint them and they install the electronic equipment inside them.

Halpern: ATMs and gas pumps in major cities and vacation destinations are susceptible to the scheme. DeLeo suggests…

DeLeo: Cash transactions for gas pumps. ATM machines—only use them very infrequently.

Halpern: The FBI and our law enforcement partners are using intelligence to identify and locate the organized crime groups.

DeLeo: We track them and we catch them.

Halpern: For more information visit FBI.gov.