This document summarizes how debit and credit card fraud works and has become a major crime. It discusses the history of credit cards from the 1940s and debit cards in the 1980s. The document then explains how fraudsters are able to gain card information through hacking, skimming devices, or online purchases of stolen numbers. It also details how criminals produce counterfeit cards and modify ATMs with cameras and card overlays to steal debit card pins and commit fraud. While law enforcement works to prevent fraud through new technologies and investigations, the document notes that information and tools are easily accessible online, making card fraud a low risk and highly profitable crime.