System and method for surveillance of suspects of automated banking machine fraud

A method of surveillance of a suspect of automated banking machine (ABM) fraud, comprising:

• recording at least one video signal from at least one surveillance camera, each surveillance camera targeting at least one of the ABM and its surroundings;
• detecting the presence of a foreign device targeting the ABM and, upon such detection, generating an alarm notification after a predetermined delay;
• upon receipt of the alarm notification, archiving the at least one video signal recorded from the at least one surveillance camera so the at least one archived recorded video signal has a recording length exceeding the predetermined delay.

A data processor readable medium storing data processor code that, when loaded into a data processing device, adapts the device to assist in surveillance of a suspect of automated banking machine (ABM) fraud, the data processor readable medium including:

• code for operatively connecting the data processing device to a detector adapted to detect of the presence of a foreign device targeting the ABM and to a video recording device adapted to record a plurality of video files of video images showing at least a portion of the vicinity of the ABM;
• code for generating an alarm notification upon detection of the presence of a foreign device targeting the ABM that persists for at least a predetermined delay period;
• code for archiving the plurality of recorded video files to non-volatile storage upon receipt of an alarm notification.