Hunter Cat Card Skimmer Detector Review // Becky Stern
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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I just found out that you can use your Bluetooth reader on your phone to detect some skimmers.
Basically turn on your phone's Bluetooth, put it net to reader, if a device is detected and the name is a long string of number (and letters?) it's probably positive for a skimmer.
Thank you Becky, Meow!
No sabia que eran una compañia Mexa! Esta muy chingon el Hunter Cat, saludos
The fact that this device needs to exist makes me happy that almost all payment terminals in my country use chip-and-pin.
Thanks for letting me know that this thing exists, it could be very handy if I'm traveling internationally.
chip skimmers are a thing
@@UntrackedEndorphins True, but the chances of finding that are lower, and for the majority of purchases I use contactless these days. Only times I have to use chip is when I am doing certain transaction types at retailers, and they require a chip read, and not all retailers are able to do contactless at present. Only one place still uses magstripe info, that is the Post Office.
Otherwise for retail shops the only magstripe read is for loyalty cards, which mostly use magstripe read at the POS card reader, though some also use a UPC on the card, which is read by the scanner as a regular UPC code.
Only the US seems to be stuck with a majority of the POS being magstripe, and a small number being chip as they slowly upgrade decades old payment systems. There probably still are shops that use a zip zap imprinter to get the card number off the raised sections of the card, though here the chances of finding a retailer that has that as even a backup are tiny. Last saw one a decade ago.
Majority of indoor POS that I see now in the USA does use the chip or contactless, but older ATMs and gas stations are still almost all magstripe. I can't do much about that infrastructure besides use this device.
Chip is not secure.
That's a pretty neat gizmo, more reliable than looking for the Bluetooth data interfaces. In the few times I've gotten gas recently I've used the station with contactless RFID reader, but that's not my closest station. (I've filled my lawn mower more than my car...)
Thanks Becky, for a very useful review. I didn’t know this device existed.
Glad it was helpful!
I live in Mexico in the town i live in town that's they sell a of different Pi, Arduino and hardware electronic stuff. And they also sell the hunter cat as well it's pretty cool.
Has it ever not lit up green? It’s odd that there’s no video of it working to detect a skimmer.
You are correct that’s what I posted as well
@@elgato1013 I don’t trust it…
Way to go Becky, great job
😂 it's funny the reaction to fraudster it's priceless when you have this lol it's hilarious
Great to know. Thanks Becky
What about the ATM’s that take the card in all the way? Like the ones in Mexico. How would that work?
should work fine for detecting if there is a second read head, if you can physically get it in and back out again. Mechanically it depends. Maybe that card slot isn't deeper than the card, in which case the populated part of the board would stick out (like at my local ATM, it locks it but I can still see the card). But I know which ones you are talking about, they don't just latch down on your visible card, they suck it up and in-- not sure! Could break the Hunter Cat and/or the ATM! I bet the Electronic Cats folks know the answer...
Yeah, but does anyone have a video of it working on an actual scammer because all we are seeing is it being used on good units?
Thanks for the info Becky! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
You bet!
if the color is yellow ,,what to do???
Next step: emulate some fake cards to give the skimmers false data.
Or just call the bank who is issuing the reader ( contact number will be on the machine) and tell them there is a card skimmer at location. They will be out there pronto, as they are by law required to eat the loss, especially with credit cards, and you can bet they will do the retailer over for allowing this to occur.
just purchased.
Interesting. DNS can't resolve electroniccats.com for me....
🤷♀️ works for me, and when I put it in a DNS lookup tool.
@@BeckyStern Huh. Me, too, just now. Must have been a transient cache problem? Google's DNS servers tend to be pretty solid....
Can you do a review on the Hunter Cat NFC.
I’ve got one coming in the mail!
Muy linda Becky!
Nice❤
That's a great policy fraudster prevention
americans, chip and pin, or payWave get with the times
Newer cards here do have a chip (and touch-to-pay). But a lot of North American infrastructure still has magstripe readers, especially in Mexico, where the creators of this device are.
Do these work worldwide?
anywhere there are magstrip readers, yes. it detects if there are multiple readers at play. but a lot of places don't use magstrip anymore...
Hackerwarehouse has it says to keep it within the laws