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News in Australasia ATMIA would like to welcome new members: - Community Alliance Credit Union ATMIA has successfully gained the support of the Western Australian Police to provide this chapter regular updates of any criminal activity in regards to ATMs. This now means that ATMIA is working together with NSW, VIC, QLD and WA police. We are also in the process of obtaining statistical information from VIC and NSW police. This information will soon be available to all our members. Last month ATMIA held a teleconference for its Life Cycle Committee Members. As a result the Association is now investigating the “reverse engineering” of ATMs, ATMIA wants to ensure that these ATMs are not getting into the wrong hands especially in terms of ATM software. BNW Australia is making a steady progress; they are now in discussions with Crime Stoppers NSW regarding an alliance licensing agreement. If successful BNW Australia together with Crime Stoppers NSW will proceed with: Should anyone have enquiries regarding BNWA membership, please contact me sandra@atmia.com Latest ATM Scam in Australia Recently a male posing as an ATM technician gained access to ATMs at a gaming venue and spent several hours working on them. After successfully installing computer and communication based devices this enabled the individual to capture all card details that occurred at the ATMs. Luckily staff at the gaming venue checked with Cash Card Australia (Independent ATM company) and soon learnt that no technician had been arranged for this venue. Police from the Australia’s Commercial and Electronic Crime Branch has since arrested this individual.
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The ATM Industry Association is a non-profit, member-owned alliance dedicated to the global
advancement, proliferation and protection of automated teller machines. ATMIA is the world’s only
international trade body for the ATM industry with over 1,000 members in about 50 countries.
In June 2003, ATMIA established the Global ATM Security Alliance (GASA) (www.globalasa.com) with
the mission to employ global security resources in a united alliance in order to protect the ATM industry
from criminal activity. GASA publishes international security lifecycle best practices and manages
a global ATM crime data management system called Cognito, which includes an online fraud library.
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