4. Petrol Pumps: Petrol or diesel bunks are one of the favorite targets for thieves. There are chances that these thieves might be equipped with Bluetooth which will allow them to come by and extract the collected numbers and PINs wirelessly! Avoid becoming their prey by using cash. If nothing else, use a credit card at a petrol and diesel pumps. It’s not widely appreciated that consumer responsibility for debit-card charges are different than they are for credit cards. With a debit card, you have to report a fraudulent purchase within a few business days. Thus use credit cards or money in those bunks.

5. Outdoor ATMs: Using the outdoor ATMs for withdrawing money is one of the dangerous attempts to do. But some ATMs present a perfect opportunity for thieves to skim your debit card. Do you know what is skimming? Skimming is the practice of capturing a bank customer's card information by running it through a machine that reads the card's magnetic strip. Those machines are often placed over the real card slots at ATMs and other card terminals. So beware of such ATMs and try to use indoor ATMs for withdrawing cash often.