Shell keeps PIN ban after £1m fraud Sandra Haurant and agencies
Monday May 8, 2006
Eight people, including one from Guildford and another from Portsmouth, were arrested last week in connection with the theft of more than £1m.
The criminals used scanning devices similar to those used by fraudsters targeting cash machine users to copy the cards' magnetic strips and record PIN codes.
Apacs, the card payment association, said it had heard of no other incident where chip and PIN terminals had been tampered with in this way.
Sandra Quinn, the association's spokeswoman, said it was not a new method of fraud.
“They have managed to tamper with the PIN pads. They are supposed to be tamper resistant, but that has obviously failed,” she said.
Only Shell had been affected and the association was confident that it “was not a systemic issue”, Ms Quinn said.
A Shell spokesperson said: “We will reintroduce chip & PIN as soon as it is possible, following consultation with the terminal manufacturer, card companies and the relevant authorities, to ensure that customers can be confident that their transactions are fully secure.”
Customers will be unaffected as they can still pay by card by signing for fuel or goods.
The 400 Shell outlets run by franchisees in the UK will continue to use the chip and PIN service.
The Metropolitan Police's cheque and plastic crime unit is conducting an investigation.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
