I just came back from my 5th trip to Bali. I'd be more concerned about riding in a car on Indonesian roads
And the ferries. Avoid the ferries.
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I just came back from my 5th trip to Bali. I'd be more concerned about riding in a car on Indonesian roads
From an entirely independent source..my 68 year old mother looking over my shoulder reading this thread....Oh for goodness sakes, I thought Lion Air were better when you made me go to Mingkanbau than going to Kota Kinabalu on Air Malaysia.
A bit off topic, but my wife and I just got back from two weeks in Bali.
We were both uber-careful about only withdrawing money from very public ATMs and looking for evidence of card skimmers on the card reader.
Despite this, we had two separate debit cards hacked and significant fraudulent charges run up. The best guess of the banks right now is that someone compromised the internals of the ATM machine and pulled our card details.
Was it a magentic strip card or chip based? I am heading there next month so I need to know if they are able to hack non-magnetic cards. There are now bluetooth based ATM card skimmers that transmit the codes to a nearby device. See: Tracking a Bluetooth Skimmer Gang in Mexico
Pearlman
We both had magnetic strip debit cards. I'm not sure if the ATM machines in Ubud would take advantage of a chip based card.