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Parasitic Skimmer

A type of device manufactured for the capture of account data from magnetically encoded cards that operates in-line with the original ATM, gas pump, or other card reading device.

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Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ANSI/ASTM E3017-19 Standard Practice for Examining Magnetic Card Readers. ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428, 2019. Source link(link is external)
Reprinted, with permission, from ASTM, copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428. A copy of the complete standard may be purchased from ASTM International, https://www.astm.org(link is external)