Dollar Tree Shoppers lose $700,000 in debit card ATM scam

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Dollar Tree Shoppers lose $700,000 in debit card ATM scam

08-05-2006, 09:38 AM,

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Dollar Tree Shoppers lose $700,000 in debit card ATM scam

Quote:Cyber-thieves who hacked into the ATM information of at least 800 retail customers in California and Oregon have stolen as much as $700,000 from personal accounts during the last two months, according to police reports.

People who used ATM cards to purchase items at Dollar Tree, a national retail toy store chain, in Modesto and Carmichael, Calif., and Ashland, Ore., have turned in reports of unauthorized withdrawals in the computer-based scam...

Although the details of how the cyber-thieves actually pulled off the Dollar Tree scam are not publicly known, there are some common scenarios that have been known to be troublesome for the ATM/credit card companies and their customers...

full article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1999367,00.asp

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