According to Financial Fraud Action UK, the number of cash-machine fraud is on the rise. In the first four months of 2013, 7,525 cases were reported as compared to previous year of 2,553 cases. The fraud was found to be caused by peeping over cardholder shoulder to steal their PIN number. Similar in California, numerous cases had been reported as shown:
Source : http://news.sky.com/story/1100203/atm-shoulder-surfing-card-fraud-on-rise
- January 2, 2015 in Milpitas, California – A woman kept watching at ATM customers which then noticed by a bank employee. Multiple customers was found had money withdrawn from their accounts fraudulently.
- January 25, 2015 in Walnut Creek, California – a 32 years old Ayanna Bastain was observed acting suspiciously which was then arrested by police in a sting operation to identify a suspect in multiple shoulder surfing thefts. Based on the written statement, “Bastain was positively identified from surveillance photos from previous shoulder surfing thefts in Walnut Creek in November and December 2014”.
- March 17-18, 2015 in Fremont, California – several people were the victims of shoulder surfing in two locations. More victims are still to be identified.
Source : http://news.sky.com/story/1100203/atm-shoulder-surfing-card-fraud-on-rise
Another case of identity theft also reported in Irvine, California on October 2015 whereby two men were arrested for stolen others’ ATM pin to withdraw cash. It had been suspected that they got the passwords through “shoulder-surfing”. There are getting more and more cases of identity theft through shoulder surfing as it is very hard for the victim to prevent and spot the shoulder surfer. So, it is very important to create awareness amongst the users to realize the danger of shoulder-surfing.
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