When you withdraw cash at an ATM, it may be important to look first. A fraud method seems to have been attached to Germany and now they also warn in the Norwegian newspaper Today’s for the crime.
In Germany, the fraud method has cost victims a total of EUR 200,000, corresponding to approximately SEK 2,296,000. But in Sweden, fewer and fewer people use cash, and thus ATMs. However, this has not passed the Swedish authorities unnoticed.
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Cash a hot issue in Sweden – ATMs still in use
In December, the Riksbank wanted a requirement that cash can be received from traders who sell vital goods, such as food and medicine, introduced.
At the same time, Swedish trade was critical of the proposal, which they thought did not take into account the market.
– Svensk Handel considers that if the state places demands on market players to carry out socially important cash services that do not have commercial sustainability, the state should also take financial responsibility, just as it does for other socially important infrastructure, said Bengt Nilervallbusiness policy expert on Swedish trade, to News24 when.
Although fewer people use cash, groups remain that do not want or can pay digitally, and ATMs have not disappeared from Swedish society.
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Crime at ATMs: “very seriously”
The fraud method that has been boosted in other parts of Europe can hardly be described as new, but is easy to prevent.
Today’s writes that the perpetrators comply with people who enter their PIN in the ATM which they thus identify by looking over the shoulder or analyzing finger movements. The victim is then distracted in some way and the perpetrators get hold of the bank card just used in the ATM.
To prevent it is enough to hold on your hand when entering your PIN in the ATM.
The method is also not unknown in Sweden. Jenny DanielssonCommunications Manager at ATM, tells News24 that the crimes often get stuck on surveillance cameras.
– We look at crime very seriously at our vending machines, she says and continues:
– When a crime has been committed at one of our vending machines, it is important for us to cooperate with the police and give them access to our camera recordings so that they can more easily clear up the crime.
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