Patent ID: 8622297

Claim:
An anti-skimming assembly for a card reader device, comprising: a displacement bar mountable on a front plate of a card reader device proximate to a card entry opening formed in the front plate, said displacement bar having at least one leg; at least one fastener connectible to the at least one leg of the displacement bar through a fastener opening formed in the front plate, said at least one fastener being operatively coupleable to an alarm circuit, and said at least one fastener further comprising a non-conductive fastener connectible to the at least one leg through the fastener opening; first and second electrically conductive leads carried by said non-conductive fastener electrically connectible to one another via an electrically conductive spring and coupleable to said alarm circuit; said displacement bar having a second leg spaced from said at least one leg of the displacement bar; further comprising a second fastener connectible to the second leg of the displacement bar through a second fastener opening formed in the front plate, wherein said second fastener further comprises an infrangible fastener; and wherein said at least one fastener further comprises a frangible fastener, and wherein the frangible fastener comprises a non-metallic threaded screw receivable in an internally threaded opening formed in said at least one leg.