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Now, the NYPD is testing out a new device designed by a team of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEAD IN : \u003cbr/\u003e              The United States Secret Service says more than a billion dollars is stolen from U.S. consumer each year by credit card skimmers. \u003cbr/\u003e              Now, the NYPD is testing out a new device designed by a team of computer engineers at the University of Florida and detectives are impressed. \u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE: \u003cbr/\u003e              Police have a new device which could help protect us all from credit card fraud.  \u003cbr/\u003e              A group of students at the University of Florida invented a device they call the \"Skim Reaper\" which detects illegal credit card skimmers attached to ATM's, gas pumps and other terminals. \u003cbr/\u003e              The device they call the \"Skim Reaper,\" a credit-card thin gadget that slides into card reader slots and can easily and quickly detect if an ATM or gas pump has been compromised. \u003cbr/\u003e              The New York Police Department is testing the Skim Reaper with some early success in its effort to rid the streets of the pervasive devices. \u003cbr/\u003e              The NYPD has four full-time, trained detectives tasked with finding credit-card skimmers installed on ATMs at bodegas, but say the problem is too widespread to be stopped with those resources.\u003cbr/\u003e              In February, Traynor gave NYPD five Skim Reapers to test. The device looks like a long credit card that can be slid into a card slot in a gas pump or ATM. It's attached by a wire to a cellphone-sized box with a small readout screen that says \"possible skimmer!\" when multiple read heads are detected.\u003cbr/\u003e              Detective James Lilla, NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force says \"impressed with their technology and their wit on how to come up with this machine to detect skimming devices.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Part of the attraction to the Skim Reaper is its simplicity says Deputy Inspector Christopher Flanagan, of the NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It actually was very helpful, because they don't have that expertise. You could give this to an untrained person who could go to a bank of ATM's and they could do inspections and locate devices on their own, where in the past they were often not able to do that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The advent of debit and credit cards with protective chips that inserted into special readers have helped some retail businesses combat skimming. \u003cbr/\u003e              But the higher cost of the new readers and complexity of switching over to a new technology has been an obstacle for small retail businesses and gas stations where criminals have flourished.\u003cbr/\u003e              The Secret Service says skimmers steal more than a billion dollars from U.S. consumers annually, money that often funds organized crime.\u003cbr/\u003e              Most credit card skimmers work by installing an extra \"read head\" inside or outside a machine. \u003cbr/\u003e              This extra read head allows criminals to make a copy of the card's information as a consumer swipes it. Skim Reaper was built to detect when more than one read head is present, Traynor says.\u003cbr/\u003e              \" Credit cards are read using something call a card reader, or a read head.  At any given time only 1 read head should be present in a card slot, so what the skim reaper does is find when more than one are present.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Nolen Scaife, one of the graduate students who designed the device with Traynor, says the team is working to improve the Skim Reaper's design so that it is wallet-sized. \u003cbr/\u003e              Then, consumers would be able to carry the device and dip it into a card reader before they get gas or use the ATM to ensure they aren't being skimmed.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"This is a huge problem that costs millions of dollars each year to consumers. We're glad to be able to produce something that will curb the tide,\" says Scaife. \u003cbr/\u003e              Steven Weisman, a cyber security expert and professor at Bentley University in Massachusetts, says: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"If indeed this new technology could be done on a cost effective basis, it could put the skimmers out of business. It would save people tremendous amounts of money and aggravation.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              Right now, it costs about $50 to make each Skim Reaper, Traynor says, but his team is working daily to get that number down.\u003cbr/\u003e              In New York, NYPD's Flanagan said more testing needs to be done but he is impressed with early results. Mainly, it allows untrained officers to be employed in the anti-skimming effort, where before trained investigators were needed to identify the illegal devices.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              New York - 18 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of NYPD financial crimes detective using prototype \"skim reaper\" at an ATM\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Detective James Lilla, NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Well this device would detect skimming devices on particular ATM's.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Tight of device\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Detective James Lilla, NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force:\u003cbr/\u003e               \"Impressed with their technology and their wit on how to come up with this machine to detect skimming devices.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various of detective using device\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Detective James Lilla, NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force:\u003cbr/\u003e               \"It's definitely an assist we can use to combating ATM skimming.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Various of detectives at the NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force office  \u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Deputy Inspector Christopher Flanagan, NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It actually was very helpful, because they don't have that expertise. You could give this to an untrained person who could go to a bank of ATM's and they could do inspections and locate devices on their own, where in the past they were often not able to do that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Gainesville, Florida - 13 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Various of students and professor in a lab showing how prototype device works at the University of Florida\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Traynor, Professor, University of Florida: \u003cbr/\u003e              \" Credit cards are read using something call a card reader, or a read head.  At any given time only 1 read head should be present in a card slot, so what the skim reaper does is find when more than one are present.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Various of demonstration\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nolan Scaife, Student, University of Florida: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"This is a huge problem that costs millions of dollars each year to consumers. We're glad to be able to produce something that will curb the tide.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Waltham, Massachusetts - 25 April 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Cutaway of Professor and white collar crimes expert, Steven Weisman\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) Steven Weisman, White Collar Crimes Expert, Bentley University \u003cbr/\u003e               \"To recognize if a skimmer is there, this could be a revolutionary watershed moment because right now there are many retailers, ATM's and gas stations and gas pumps that have not switched over because of the complexity of switching to the EMV chip card, which would protect from skimming as well as the cost of it.  And so, If indeed this new technology could be done on a cost effective basis it could put the skimmers out of business, it would save people tremendous amounts of money and aggravation.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              15. 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