Criminals are embracing methods to trap debit and credit cards in ATMs for retrieval later. The move believed to be motivated by better security measures designed to ensure card details are not copied at the machines. “Cash trapping” activities surged in 11 European countries for the first six months of this year. The rise in cash trapping contributed to a near doubling of recorded ATM fraud attacks, EAST said. “skimming” attacks fell by 33 percent, to the lowest level in three years, group says.”]

