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How can you protect yourself against ATM skimming?

Walakira — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:13:38 +0000

Shield your hand with paper sheet or envelop and enter the pin code under this cover! Ensure that the card slots are set within the body of the ATM machine and not protruding above it.

A customer can easily spot any tampering if you are using a familiar ATM machine. So you may also check for false keyboards. Most ATM keyboards are set within the body and are not protruding above the base. If you see any strange gadget installed don’t insert your ATM card and immediately inform the security immediately. You may also look out for miniature cameras that can photography your pin code entry. So in this article we give tips on how to protect your card and pin numbers:

Your ATM card is a key to your money safety and so guard it well. Don’t expose your ATM pin number to any person irrespective of relationship because that person may fraudulently draw your money without your permission or knowledge.

The bank takes no responsibility for such loses especially at the workplace and at home at all times. Avoid so called good Samaritans or sympathizers who are quick to offer assistance whenever they find you have challenges at the ATM. Guard against possible imposters posing as bank workers on off site ATMs. Banks don’t have demonstrators at the ATMs off sites. Customers are also asked to monitor regularly their bank account balances in order to quickly spot anomalies and minimise loses.

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How conmen access your ATM pin numbers

Walakira — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:10:45 +0000

On 30^th August 2012, as a result of the vigilance of a certain staff member of Stanbic bank at Nateete branch in Kampala, four Bulgarian nationals who had reportedly installed ATM skimming devices at the ATM machine were intercepted and handed them over to the police.

Stanbic bank has a processes and procedures to ensure that there is continuous monitoring of ATMs in order to protect customers and their money.

But the police spokesperson for Kampala, Ibin Senkumbi says that ATM fraud is a growing problem which the banks can not solve alone. Therefore the police have called upon bank clients and the general public to join police in fighting ATM fraud. In ATM skimming, criminals and thieves use hidden electronic devices e.g. cameras and card readers to steal personal information on ATM cards.

Police says that the first part of the skimmer is a card reader over the ATM’s real card slot. When a bank customer slides his or her card into the ATM, s/he is unknowingly sliding it through the counterfeit reader, which scans and stores all the information on the magnetic strip.

However to gain full access to a customer’s bank account on an ATM, the thieves still need your pin number. That is where cameras come in hidden on or near the ATM’s tiny spy cameras are positioned to get a clear view of the keyboard and record all the ATM’s pin action.

So customers are advised to always pay attention to objects mounted on the ATM or located close by a pinhole of off color piece of plastic could give away the camera’s hiding place. Cameras also could even be hidden in brochure racks.

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why you need to tear your airtime cards

Gerald Businge — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:58:32 +0000

This is from the Uganda Consumer Protection Association
“SECURITY ALERT: Kindly note there is a new technique used by robbers and carjackers to escape from arrest due to their criminal activities. They are collecting used mobile phone airtime scratch cards and once they abandon the car or where they dump the dead bodies they leave the already used scratch card at the scene. Once the police arrive they use the scratch card serial numbers to track the phone number it was loaded on. Police is holding two people who fell victim of the trick.
TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE – Once you load airtime make sure you destroy the card before you dispose it to avoid such incidences. PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE, IT SAVES. Consumer Responsibility – Take Action and Do not become a Victim.”

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MakerereUniversityfees to rise

Gerald Businge — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:23:11 +0000

It is hard to believe that despite the economic crisis inUganda, Makerere Universityis planning to raise its tuition structure.

A source in academic registrar’s office, has told this journalist that Bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery is scheduled to raise to 1,450,000 shillings from 1,344,000 shillings.

Bachelor of dental surgery goes to 1,444,000 shillings from 1,344,000 shillings. Bachelor of Science in nursing is now at 1,444,000 shillings from 1,344,000 shillings.

Bachelor of laws, according to the new proposed fees structure, will cost candidates 1,360,000 shillings per semester from 1,260,000 shillings. The Academic Registrar of Makerere University, Alfred Masikye Namoah says that all fees are payable in full at the beginning of the academic year or in two installments at the beginning of each semester.

He further says that every privately sponsored student is obliged to pay all the functional fees and the tuition fees before he/she can be registered and allowed to attend classes as well as being issued with the university card.

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