Pas-Voice_Kar_1-2

Put each word in brackets into an appropriate verb form.

HI-TECH CASH MACHINE GANGS STEAL THOUSANDS

Banks________________(1) (hit) by a new network of Cashpoint crooks. Mission Impossible-style surveillance equipment_______________(2) (use) to steal the details from customers' plastic cards. Hi-tech equipment and tiny CCTV pinhole cameras_______________ (3) (employ) to steal both the card details and the Pin numbers, which _____________ (4) (key) in by unsuspecting victims when "hole-in-the-wall" machines _______________ (5) (use). The gangs_______________ (6) call "the Romanian ring" by detectives, because nearly all of those caught have been from Eastern Europe. They _______________ (7) (believed) to_______________ (8) (steal) £5m in the past months. The gangs methods_______________ (9) become so high-level that they_______________ (10) (believe) _______________ (11) (contract) equipment to other criminals for £10,000 a time. Banks and credit companies_______________ (12) worried about the gangs' operations. A £10m advertising campaign_______________ (13) (launch) tomorrow to introduce a new system in which cards______________ (14) (protect) against cloning by microchips the magnetic strips eventually___________ (15) (replace) by. Last year fraud which _______________ (16) (commit) on British plastic cards fell for the first time in eight years, largely as a result of a crack down on theft abroad using stolen credit cards. The figure _______________ (17) (drop) from £424.6m in 2002 to £402.4m in 2003. But the banks' losses from cloning of cards by the Romanian ring and other crooks using more traditional methods ___________ (18) (increase) from £29m to £39m.

HI-TECH CASH MACHINE GANGS STEAL THOUSANDS-2

The gangs usually________________ (1) prey on cash withdrawal machines in places that________________ (2) (desert) over-night. Supermarkets and petrol stations that close in the evening are common targets. A computerised "reader"_______________ (3) (attach) over the slot where cards ________________ (4) (insert). A metal strip with two pinhole cameras________________ (5) (glue) out of sight in the niche above where the customer's Pin number ______________ (6) (enter), or________________ (7)

(attach) to a false leaflet holder which________________ (8) (add) to the machine. The gang ________________ (9) (hide) in a van nearby. When a card________________ (10) (insert), its magnetic strip________________ (11) (read) by the gang's device and the information ________________ (12) (feed) back by a radio signal to a laptop computer. A few seconds later the CCTV monitor________________ (13) (use) to spy on the customer as his or her Pin number ________________ (14) (enter). Then a new plastic card complete with magnetic strip ________________ (15) create by the criminals and the Pin number________________ (16) (use) to empty the account. Rosemary Weaver________________ (17) (fall) victim while using her Link card at an Abbey cash withdrawal machine outside a store. "The first I knew that my card ________________ (18) (clone) was when I________________ (19) (decline) to________________ (20) (pay) any more cash, because I ________________ (21) (tell) I________________ (22) (have) my maximum limit for that day. £900________________ (23) (take) by the gang in three separate withdrawals from my account. I ________________ (24) (replace) all the money by my bank but I am now careful about all hole-in-the-wall cash machines."