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Procedee de sustragere ilegală a mijloacelor bănești prin intermediul cardurilor bancare sau a bancomatelor. Metode de prevenire
Proceedings of illegal embezzlement of funds through bank cards or ATMs. Prevention methods

Author(s): Marian Gherman
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law
Published by: Academia “Stefan cel Mare” a MAI al Republicii Moldova
Keywords: bank card; ATM; skimming; phishing; malware; cash trapping; black box;

Summary/Abstract: The researched subject refers to a criminal phenomenon that became very widespread during the recent years. Illegal withdrawals of money from bank cards or through ATMs have taken a large scale, a fact that is confirmed by the statistics of domestic and international police structures. In the given study, I will focus on researching the most widespread forms of embezzlement of financial means from payment cards, as well as the procedures for compromising ATMs (Automated Teller Machines), carried out for the same purposes. At the same time, I will also refer to the methods of preventing this scourge, often exposed in the recommendations of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM), which are intended to justify payment cardholders to observe some elementary rules in the process of handling them in order to avoid risks of ATMs or bank cards compromising.

  • Issue Year: 1/2022
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 92-104
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English, Romanian