I do agree that skimming exists over here as well, a friend of mine got his card cloned once. He'd used it with an ATM located in a very central and visible place, famous for night-time entertainment -- thiefs must have thought drunk people don't pay too much attention to this sort of thing, especially when they've been queuing for a while (which they typically have to, at this location).

Same in Italy and France, last I heard; places where banks are extremely fraud/security-conscious and continuously maintain their infrastructure to guard from these threats.