Originally Posted by
Snoopy
Good question, which I had not thought about before. So while chatting to my cousin tonight, I asked him....
My cousin and his wife were at Paddington Station in London, sorting out their travel. Unusually my cousin had his VISA card in his back pocket as a stand alone card, to save him diving into his travel bags to get it. The opportunity this presented for electronic theft, and the timing of subsequent 'stolen transactions' was the reason my cousin decided this was where the card skimming happened. A railway station is also the perfect cover for an opportunistic thief, as all sorts of legitimate people are 'loitering about' with good reason. If his card had been in his wallet with other cards, in that case the electronic signal as read by a scanner would have been corrupted. So my cousin decided Paddington Station was the best opportunity for such electronic theft, given it was the only time his VISA card was in his back pocket and not in his wallet as per normal.
SNOOPY