How Scammers in Jamaica Clone Your ATM Banking Card

[GPRS Internet]

People be safe, check all ATMs before you use them...

[khat17]

Good information. Please bear in mind that the video is for the NCR machines which are primarily used by NCB. They seem to be targeted more these days. The other two brands that I'm aware of in Jamaica are Diebold and Wincor. The older Wincor machines are going to be phased out because Diebold has now acquired / merged with them.

http://www.dieboldnixdorf.com/en-us/dieboldwincor

Other companies have some ATMs that are either old or rare on the market. Fujitsu makes ATMs as well for example, and IBM used to make ATMs also.

I believe the scammers have templates to fit all of the more popular models in the island. You just need to be careful and observant.

[marl30]

Good info for not just Jamaica, as a lot of that is going on here in the States too.

[Chosen1]

Scamma dem deh ya.

My workaround is just to open another account unattached to my card and keep almost all of my money in there. I don't keep more than maybe $7,000 in the main account.

[Dre']

Scamma dem deh ya.

My workaround is just to open another account unattached to my card and keep almost all of my money in there. I don't keep more than maybe $7,000 in the main account.

Been doing this for years before the increase attention to scamming in Jamaica. The only time money goes to the main account of the card is when i gonna use the card to buy something or when i'm gonna withdraw cash from ATM.

Also make the account where you store the cash not accessible from the card at ATMs.