Patent ID: 11881088
Assignee: NCR CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A method, comprising:
obtaining images captured adjacent to or overhead of a card reader slot for a card reader module associated with a transaction terminal;
determining whether a card slot tampering event is to be raised for a user present at the transaction terminal based on analysis of hands of the user in the images relative to the card reader slot;
providing an alert when the card slot tampering event is raised causing the transaction terminal to be non-operational for transactions processed on the transaction terminal; and
retaining a video clip from the images depicting gestures and actions of the hands when the card slot tampering event is raised, wherein retaining further includes identifying any card used by the hands from the video clip, identifying an account number on the card when used by the hands, and notifying a financial institution associated with the account number to suspend the account number for suspected card slot tampering activity.