PROJECT VENLO

The NSW Commercial Crime Unit this week shutdown payment card acceptance
at five petrol stations in Sydney due to card skimming. The action is part
of “Project Venlo” which launched in July. According to the NSW Police, the
petrol stations where swiping cards through a card skimmer and then
transferring the magnetic stripe data to another card. The latest group
also set up cameras to watch customers enter PINs. The five petrol stations
netted approximately A$100,000. Since Project Venlo was launched more than
a dozen merchants in Sydney’s western suburbs and inner west have lost
their EFT/POS and credit card terminals.