Man, that tiny
Eee PC can be used for just about anything: surfing the web, blogging, surreptitiously hiding inside an ATM machine and stealing your identity. You know, the usual stuff. Yeah, so three creative Brazilian thieves were recently caught stuffing a black Eee into an ATM, where it replaced the ordinary magical-money-making workings and instead stole unwitting customers' card numbers and PINs. The thieves didn't stop there, however -- they purposefully damaged all the other nearby ATMs so that theirs would be the only one in service. Clever! Of course, that doesn't explain why it was so easy to crack open the target ATM in the first place -- we'd pretty much consider our cash flow problems solved if we could pull that trick. Check out the Brazilian TV report after the break -- any Portuguese speakers care to translate?
posted Apr 22nd 2008 7:14PM
Here is the translation: "First the man chooses what ATM terminal will be cracked, and them another guy enter to open the ATM (easy easy, maybe he work for this ATM company?), the other terminal ATM was blocked so people can "use" only the cracked ATM. After that they manufacture fake credit cards, the deal was discovery by the bank manager after he saw the door open (not usual with 24hr banks right?) and he detect that only one terminal was working..The best part was the criminals was arrest because they go to the police station to complain about a car accident, and the police recognizes him from the video... Typical from Brazil.. I was victim of this kind of scan by the beginning of this year..
A cute little tiny Eee pc used to do that ?
What I wonder is how did it last long enough to scam anyone? I mean the battery life lasts only 2 hours max. Not even for me.
Yeah I dunno if thats what the Eee PC was meant for... it was only meant to play to Doom.
This guy is way funny, he said something about Doom! Vote him up to highest ranked right now! Where do you come up with such funny material?
The "Highest Ranked" no longer exists. Sorry.
"The "Highest Ranked" no longer exists."
And also "Lowest Ranked" too.
Man, I miss those. (I also miss me screwing crap up and getting a Lowest.)
Clicking on the date actually reveals the true rating of the comment. Highest and lowest rank still exist there for some reason.
I got horribly depressed every time i got a lowest ranked, so I like this new system.
wow, I'm glad someone pointed out that there are no more "highest ranked" comments. I usually like to browse the comments for those and have been wondering why I never see them anymore. Thanks for the notice!
Yeah, I was wondering if the standard of commenting had just declined recently, or if people just couldn't even be bothered to vote on comments any more.
I miss it. It means people who make the truly hilarious comments are lumped with the guy who just said 'assholes' at the Sony/Gracenote news.
And why is it Highly Ranked and Low Ranked?
Why not
Highly Ranked and Lowly Ranked
or
High Ranked and Low Ranked
thanks everyone. Thanks a lot.
Now thats educational.
and fricking hilarious
- http://www.stompergames.com
Take that Apple.
what does apple have to do with this?
I'm not a FanBoy and I have to ask, what the hell are you talking about? This has nothing to do with Apple..???????
Faslane
yeah dude, sit down.
idiot
ohhh it's true, criminals never choose apple, that's for honest people only.
Yeah, that's right, apple users are all honest, angel like things. That's why they sit behind a nice white mac, and tell the world they like whatever rubbish apple makes, but what's hiding on a secret partition or a secret drive????...... That's right, A secret copy of windows XP. Oh, no no. I'm mistaken, they put a 2.6GhZ core 2 duo, and a 8600m GT and 2 gigs of ram in the mac book pro so that you people can use iPhoto.
NO you nubs, it's so that apple fanboys can play crysis.... with their secret copy of XP, and still be all apply and shit at the same time.
I used my laptop to do the exact same thing. I caught my sister's ex boyfriend robbing our house.
i'm sorry, how is that the exact same thing?
use laptop to steal money
???
catch sisters boyfriend stealing money
???
profit
lol, that was the plan
Obviously vdogg has a private ATM in his house, don't you?
That's nothing. I used my PC to burgle a bank. I just disconnected the keyboard from the PCU, and threw the PCU through the front window. Nothin' to it.
You know, of course, that I meant CPU.
You threw a processor through a window?
That's either a hell of an arm you've got, or a shitty window.
Basically...what he's saying is he was using the cam on his laptop to spy on his own sister in her room or with her boyfriend but managed to see the boyfriend robbing the house instead.
The news anchor says pretty much what you have reported. The details are as follows - heist took place on a Saturday. Bank manager stops by the branch and notices all but one ATM working, checks security video, reports to police. Scammer stops by the police station to report a car accident (?), policeman recognize him from the video and arrest him. Two later arrests are made, not clear how but I deduce first guy snitched. Observation: see how easy it was to lift the cover off the ATM? I suspect an inside man on the team.
Eee....show me the money!
dont you mean,
show me the moneee
;-)
That was easy how they opened that thing,
when was the video checked?
now I know that if I see some guys opening the only working ATM machine i wont use it... duuh
too bad they have to recharge every 1.5 ATMs
This video says the same thing as you saind on your topic.
And, the thieves were discovered after some facts (one of them are quite weird):
1. A bank employer (the gerent, ou "gerente", I dunno the right translation to English) came to open the bank, and noted the violated door, broken ATMs, and the only one operating. Immediately, he/she got the security videos and called the Police.
2. One of the thieves were at the Police asking for some information about car rental and registering a traffic accident (lolroflmao). The policeman knew the thief's face, thanks to the security videos from the bank, and arrested him.
3. 2 thieves were arrested in the Rio Grande do Sul State and one in the Guarulhos International Airport, in Sao Paulo.
Hope I did the translation good. :P
Bye
The video says they were using the PC to do card cloning and that they were caught due to a couple of coincidences.
That Saturday night the bank manager went in and saw the broken door and that only one of the ATMs was working. He checked the video surveillance and called the police.
One of the guys was actually caught when he went into the police station to report a car accident he was involved in, and one of the police officers recognized him from the video.
They later on caught his partners. They already had a police record due to previous bank robberies.
...and it should read "Portuguese"... :)
The translations:
1st women
A men goes to the police to make a participation of a traffic accident and gets busted by being identified as part of a group o tempers ATM whit a laptop.
The images are inside a bank and the tiefs chose one atm and damage the other.
Policeman
The police say that they use a magnetic card reader to get the credit card number and the PIN code.
2women
The spot the tempering early by chance, the bank manager sow the door temper and only one ATM working so he check the security video immediately.
Policemen
They catch the thief's just because the agent who help the thief that gone there by because of the traffic accident was the same agent who watch the security tape and recognise him.
you beat me
Thanks for the translation but next time could you try translating it into English? ;)
Rugh translation (part of it):
The bank detected the PC because of certain coincidences:
- the door of the bank had a small damage in it,
- only on ATM was working (because the thieves damaged the other ones so that everyone goes to the one with the laptop)
So the bank director went to see the security tapes, and they found the "problem"
One of the thieves was caught because it was recognized by the police when he went to the police squad ( hehe...ironic...) to report a car accident... and after that, the other one was also caught on the airport...
The thieves wore professional thieves, with previous police records, and of course, they wore using the laptop so steal and decrypt some of the data from the cards so that they could make copies of them.
this certainly has given the EEE pc the edge in this umpc war!
just because you said portuguese and not spanish:
bla bla bla bla camera show the action ciminals.
Reporter: A smugler gets in, chose an atm to install the laptop, soon another mans shows up and helps to remove the atm's cover. The other atm's are broken so that people use only the hacked one. Bla bla bla
this is the lapotop thiefs where using to steal user passwords
Police: When clients use the the atms their data are stored in the computer. Other suspects later do the reading of this information bla bla bla the rest is the same as in the link, google translate really works
what kind of crap bank is this?
"what kind of crap bank is this?"
Some crap bank which did not bother putting sensors that detect when the faceplate is removed.
It's like having a car alarm without having door open sensors!
ABN AMRO / La Salle (in US).
Eeeasy Money!
**Rides off on dirtbike with Guns N' Roses Blaring**
fail
His highest ranking disagrees with your statement.
One of those crooks looks like Dave Chappell
"..we'd pretty much consider our cash flow problems solved if we could pull that trick."
Ask Charlie Croker and his gang on the set of their new Job..
ILLUSION, tricks are things whores do for money
FULL TRANSLATION:
A Man was reporting a traffic accident to a police station located in the brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, when instead of help he ended up arrested. He was a member of a criminal group specialized in credit card cloning with portable computers installed at ATMs.
The images recorded by the banks security system show the criminal in action. He enters the bank, chooses his preffered ATM to install the laptop computer, some minutes later another criminal enters the bank to open the ATM and finish the job. All other ATMs are also destroyed, leaving only the hacked machine working.
The Police Officer explains that the criminals used the EeePC to store credit card info and passwords, then they would use the data to create fake(but working) credit cards.
But their brilliant plan didn't go quite as expected. The manager of the bank, on a casual visit to his working place, notted signs of a possible break in and that only one ATM was working. Suspecting something he verified the security cam images and went straight to the Police.
The group also managed to rent and crash the escape vehicle, the accident was reported to a local Police Station by one of the criminals, who was soon arrested and identified by the bank's security agents. All the criminals were wanted for previous incidents involving banks.
Now we know if we see a row of broken ATMs and only one working one, not to use it. Not that I ever use ATMs. But it's great to learn cause KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
The first government head that tries to outlaw the EEE PC as a "theft device" will be shot on sight.
Don't give them any ideas...
You know, some times ago the Supremo Tribunal Federal (the Brazilian Supreme Court) forced *all* Brazilian Internet providers to block YouTube. Now, a jurist is trying to block wordpress.com. Forbidding EeePC based on this crime would be no surprise :(
You couldn't use a macbook air to do this.
I don't think these guys would have got could if they waited for the Atom CPU version of the ASUS eee.
Too many translations already, so no need for another one. Anyway, I´ve already worked on IT (outsourced) for a bank here in Brazil, and those ATM machines have a weak latch on the front usually. But I assure the coffer is pretty much solid, and way too heavy. But as they´ve got access to the keyboard and screen, that´s not too much security, as the data is more valuable.
As for phelipe´s comment on what is typical in Brazil... that was crap.
Dude... OMG. I my bank account is on that bank (not in that agency, thanks god : )
Btw: Don't laugh folks, that bank uses Windows 98 in their ATM (yes, i've seen some win9x styles BSOD in the atm's)
Also, that bank is called Banco Real (the brazilian bank is owned by ABN Amro Bank, now owned by the spanish Santander group).
HA HA!!! They said ATM Machine!
Now I'll have to enter my PIN Number. Then it will be sent out the NIC Card. Good thing those Automated Teller Machine Machines don't ask for an SSN Number!!
i beleive ssn stands for social security number
therefore you just wrote
social security number number
Instructions for AutoTom
1) Re-Read the Engadget Story. Especially the line that says “surreptitiously hiding inside an ATM machine”
2) Go to Wikipedia
3) Look up the meaning of ATM
4) Look up the meaning of PIN
5) Look up the meaning of NIC
7) Look up “mock”
8) Read that I actually wrote out the entire meaning of ATM
9) Realize I used 4 redundant acronyms to mock Engadget’s 1
10) Find it funny
@AutoTom
Fail!
Someone has a case of RAS Syndrome... let's hope it doesn't progress to second degree Redundant RAS Syndrome.
Right, off to the Auomated ATM Machine.
Thank god we have smart people round here like you to correct us all.
Auto Tom
are u not seeing what Allan is doing. He's mocking the person who wrote ATM machines. They are actually writing out the alst letter in the arconym. I.E PIN Number, NIC Card get it now :-)
That was the point.
ATM - Automated Teller Machine
NIC - Network Interface Card
PIN - Personal Identification Number
So, ATM Machine, NIC Card, PIN Number, etc. is FUNNY!!
Portuguese is fcking ugly language... Look at the exaggerated expression of the reporters.
Have you ever wondered how english sounds for people that don't speak it at all? Oh no, you haven't...
your so stupid ugly as well...i hope you're not Portuguese...cause i don't want you to disgrace Portuguese people...and Brazilian are not Portuguese in Country identity..
It reminds me that scene from Terminator 2 where john connor steals cash from a ATM with an Atari Portfolio.
This does too:
Chris @ Apr 22nd 2008 7:48PM
Eeeasy Money!
**Rides off on dirtbike with Guns N' Roses Blaring**
keep an eye out for ATMs that:
* having lots of spelling mistakes
* offer a business partner ship in Nigeria
* claim you have won the European lottery
* invite you to punch the monkey
"any Portuguese speakers care to translate?"
It says ethetheth etheth gizmo chris waddle. Etheth eth eth boutros boutros ghali.
Português:
Caralho ein? Daqui a pouco a gente pode comentar só em português, afinal, a penca de brasileiro que traduziu essa merda foi enorme!! Parabéns!
Translation:
WTF huh? In a short time we can only post comments in portuguese, by the way, the amount of brazilians which translated this s*** was huge!!
Congrats!
EePCs + ATMs = jackpot!!
Smart enough to do all that, and forget about the cameras?!
Here the translation.
A man was registering a traffic accident in the Serra Gaúcha, but instead of obtaining aid he finished prisoner. It was part of a group specialized in clone of cards with use of laptop installed in ATM.
The images recorded of bank video security, shows the criminals action. A coup-minded one enters and chooses the terminal where laptop will be installed. Minutes later another man appears and helps to remove the equipment’s cover. The others ATM are made unusable so that customers use only the one that is with laptop.
This is the device found for the policemen. It was through them that the outlaws went to store the information of the cards and the PIN customers.
Clovis de Souza - When the customer makes this type of operation its data already is stored in the electronic equipment. Other elements make, then, the reading of the stored data and made cloned magnetic cards.
Reporter - The plan of the outlaws failed because of small coincidences. In Saturday the manager of the bank passed for the agency, perceived that the door was burglarized and that only one terminal was functioning. He was distrustful, he verified the images of security video and was direct to Police. The investigators not yet had started the searches when one of the outlaws, certain of would not be caught if it presented in a police station following advices of a vehicles’ landlord to go registering a traffic accident. The policeman recognized the criminal be the same person of video security.
Sincerely
José Rocha
Portugal
mental note for would-be-thieves:
check for and spray-paint/disable all security cameras.
I just loved how they kept looking if people were coming, they should have dressed up in serviceman outfits with caps and maybe grow out a mustache or a beard or something. Then if someone approached them they could flash a fake repair work order and fake ID.
For the non-portuguese speaking:
One of the guys was caught bc he went to a police station to file a car accident complain. He had a car accident w/ a rental car and the rental car company told him to go to the police station to register it.
Since the bank manager had already taken the security tapes to that same police station he was recognized by the cops.