跟踪导练（四）（5）

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Criminals are using technology to steal PIN numbers from check-out card readers. Criminals have come up with a new fraud（诈骗）aimed at getting the chip and PIN cards used by shop and petrol station customers across the country. They are stealing card-reading machines， taking them apart and fixing equipment which records card numbers and PINs， before returning them to the stores. The equipment is so hi-tech that it can send customers’ card information to a mobile phone. Cards are then copied and used abroad in countries including the United States， Italy and Australia where cash machines do not have to read the special microchip fixed in British cards.

Police have given a warning about the fraud after arresting two men at a card-faking factory in Birmingham. A sudden visit to a house found stolen chip and PIN machines， account numbers， card readers and unreal magnetic stripe cards.

The criminals aim at shops by threatening or bribing（收买） shop assistants to give them the card machines or getting a job there themselves. In some cases， they pretended to be engineers and took the machines away for an “upgrade”.

Card fraud abroad has increased by 77 percent─and cost ￡207.6 million in the past year. Fraudsters used to put pinhole cameras above the chip and PIN equipment to get hold of the number， but they now use the chip and PIN terminal to get that basic information. They are getting hold of the PIN from the inside of the reader. Police said the Birmingham factory had stolen card machines from 30 shops， supermarkets and petrol stations across the country. The arrest is a big development in the fight against the organized criminal groups responsible for this type of fraud.

1. How do the criminals get card information in the new card fraud?

A. By stealing card-reading machines.

B. By taking away the customers’ cards.

C. By making fake cards without microchip in them.

D. By putting hi-tech equipment in card-reading machines.

2. What does the underlined part suggest when we talk about the card fraud?

A. It took police 207.6 million.

B. It cost 207.6 million to make fake cards.

C. They stole 207.6 million from the customers.

D. They spent 207.6 on the new chip and PIN terminal.

3. In fighting against the fraud the police ＿＿＿ .

A. spent a lot of time

B. met much difficulty

C. have made great progress

D. failed to destroy the card-making factories

4. Which may be the best title for the passage?

A. Fighting Against Card Fraud

B. Card Fraud Has Increased Greatly

C. Police Arrested Some Card Fraudsters

D. Criminals Steal PIN Numbers of Cards

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