Credit Card Shimmers

Card skimming is a tactic by which scammers use a device to steal data from magnetic stripe cards. It’s an old trick that no longer really applied in the age of EMV cards…until now. Credit card “shimming” is the next big threat at the gas pump, and it might be the key that helps scammers defeat EMV chip technology. Let’s find out how this tool works, and how much of a risk it poses.