Shimming and skimming aren't moves on the dance floor, but ways to steal data from debit and credit cards. This festival season, there were a lot of both. With digital payments becoming a norm in India, shoppers used debit cards extensively and found themselves defrauded. Fraudsters had installed card-shimming and shimming devices in ATMs, at point-of-sales and so on, and accessed data on the cards. People lost their hard-earned money. To protect ourselves from this, there are simple behaviours we can adopt, such as being careful about where we use our card and not sharing card details.