Complaints against card fraud grow 43% in the first half, says association
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Were 943 complaints in the first half against 661 in 2008.
New ATM machines have card reader that 'feel' client.
National Association of Users of Credit Cards (Anucc) this year received 943 complaints from users who had credit cards cloned or received over-payments in the making. The number is 43% higher than in the first half of 2008, when the organization received 661 complaints.
The police and the credit-card not release official statistics on cloning. Informal survey of 51 cases Anucci points related to card skimming recorded this year in Sao Paulo against 24 in the same period last year.
"This year in particular there was a greater volume of seizures of fraudulent cards compared to the second half of last year. We do follow what is reported by the media and by police," the president Anucc, Kássia Correa.
Vice president of technology for a multinational manufacturer of ATMs, the electrical engineer Carlos Alberto de Padua states that for each new security mechanism criminals invent a new fraud.
"It's a race: the criminals are more technologically advanced attacks and we use technology to go even higher barrier. Cloning card the way he was becoming popular in Brazil is becoming increasingly difficult because of these technology solutions," said .
Padua said the risk to the customer is over the banks and card administrators that take longer to upgrade their equipment. According to him, it is virtually impossible to clone the chip card while the card equipped only with a magnetic stripe makes life easier for criminals.
ATMs that did not receive technological upgrades are easily penetrated by hackers who master new technologies. Already the children are practically invulnerable. "On the machine that has all these types of solution, it is virtually impossible to fraud."
The engineer said the companies increased by 15% in the value of their investments in safety every year to prevent fraud. "The main reason for the purchase of new machines is to increase security against these attacks," he said. Each machine costs between R$ 20 and R$ 40 mil.
Kássia of Anucc, says that lack invest more. For her, business credit card to bother with more profit than on providing real security to the User card. "For nine years, since the existence of the association, that the discourse of managers is always the same. They do not invest in technology, in safety, not to encumber his own business."
Source: G1
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