Unless there’s a hidden magnetic reader in the chip-reading portion of the terminal, in which case the scammers could read like 1/3 of the magstripe data? Which doesn’t seem that useful tbh.
At least around where I am (Ohio, USA), at gas pumps and ATMs: Inserting the card for contact EMV typically means inserting the whole card.
In doing so, entire card is pushed all the way into the same slot that is also used for reading the magstripe, and to the same depth that is used for magstripe transactions.
This quality leaves the door open for magstripe skimming.
(It may be a stupid way of building things, but things exist in the real world that are built this way anyhow. Whether the information on the mag stripe still has any utility for a would-be thief in 2026 is a different matter.)
Fairly standard for ATMs, yeah. I’ve always wondered why they do it like that.
And I think I’ve seen ticket machines like this in Finland – not a typical ATM-like receptacle, but you do insert the card all the way in and it locks it down. (I guess Ohio gas pumps also have something like that?)
So yeah, those things exist, but the “typical” terminal style where you only insert the card halfway is fairly safe at least. :-)