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From 2022: Thieves are stealing #SNAP funds electronically. In most states, victims never get reimbursed.
“They took every penny,” said one SNAP skimming victim, who can no longer afford to buy a Christmas present for his son.
Dec. 10, 2022, 6:00 AM EST
By Elizabeth Chuck"Hidden skimming devices are being placed on card-swiping machines near cash registers to steal SNAP funds from electronic benefit transfer, or #EBT, cards. The devices are often plastic keypad overlays that look nearly identical to the card reader terminals themselves."
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These benefits are distributed via debit cards - #EBTCards - that lack the basic security measures every other kind of card has had for years. They're simple magstripe cards, lacking basic #ChipAndPin defenses, to say nothing of contactless countermeasures.
That means that fraudsters can - and do - install #skimmers in the point-of-sale terminals used by benefits recipients to withdraw their cash benefits, pay for food using #SNAP (AKA #FoodStamps), and receive other benefits.
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