BUILD YOUR OWN SKIMMER : Electronic skimmer Part 2

This article is only for the electronic part (no bezel or cam in other part)

First the electronic is composed

This is an audio skimmer but this is same an electronic skimmer

For build the electronic you need 3 part and 4 others extra part for decoding and charge the battery (not in picture)

Red : This is the magnetic strip card reader, this is the most expensive electronic to buy
The most famous is the msrv007 size :4 x 5 x 15mm
This msrv model is the less expensive and have good size

the famous msrv007

For smallest size, they existe lot of version of  magnetic strip card reader like msrv010

You can buy bluetooth version (but size is bigger x2 and more expensive) like msrv008, when you insert your skimmer in ATM you take all data on your computer, if you lose your skimmer you have always your info

Technical info

- All msrv model have interrupted swip technology, when you swip your magnetic card and the swip is interrupted, your data is correctly saved by a powerfull algorithm
For resume : you have better chance to swip successfully more credit card

-All msrv have 3 track reader, it reads all three tracks of the magnetic cards (track 1, 2, 3), for credit card you need only track 2 and 1 (you can generate track 1 with track 2)

- All msrv have an encryption system,  All track are crypted, you need to have the software to decrypt data with a password. You can used this method for having worker.

- For the consumption, all msrv can stored up to 32000 cards or run for 16 days (only if you have a 40mA battery)

msrv technical info

Yellow : You need to used a small battery for your msrv, when you buy a msrv package you have always one include

The default battery include in msrv package is the 40mA

Blue : The  Magnetic Read Head, This is the part who read the magnetic stripe, this is optionnal but highly recommended for better track

how to connect magnetic read head

The Read head is included in msrv package

The other extra part (all included in msrv package)

USB data cable  : The cable required to communicate with the MSRv007 from your PC.

Plastic Rail : used to read the track of msrv007

Plastic rail with integrated 3 track head (11.8x11x5mm) 

USB charging cable : It only charges the battery  (not used to connect the msrv to pc)

The CRSF software (that read track to pc) : is free to download

Download soft here

A video demo tuto about decoding

http://www.cardreaderfactory.com/demo/crfsuite2.5decode.swf

Now we will se the price of this msrv package in undergroud forum

Rafael101 (read other post) sell the msrv package 900$

A German skimmer seller S@rs sell it for 1500$

A real MSRV007 reader full package cost $440.00 (yeah 50% off than rafael101)

Link here

There is other model than MSRV I have found here, MICR suite, I dont know if this is a better model but this is more expensive.

After the electronic model, I will write a new article on how to build bezel and cam for cheap price, and how to sniffing POS

Stop buying expensive stuff that you can find in internet :)