hey robd were able to share in the fortune

And the real beauty is, the bank can do chuff-all about it, apart from appeal to people's good nature and ask for the cash back. Since no ATM card was inserted, no account can be debited. My wife used to do ATM work for the bank, so she knew all the rules when people came in complaining, trying to get something for nothing.

Wish the one at the local supermarket would suddenly fubar while I'm walking by.

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No cards were inserted? Weren't people putting their card in to make a transaction and get out a 10, but instead got a 20? Or is that not what the article's saying?

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I think jmycal posted the whole article. Says that it was giving out 20's <i>instead</i> of 10's, and that folks were making 3 transactions a piece (sticking their card in to get a 10, but receiving 20's), then going to the back of the line.

Yeah, they should expect to have their accounts tagged for that, though. Duh.

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i don't suppose you can really blame the people, they only asked for 10 and got 20. i know in my town most atms only spit out 20's you can get something you didn't ask for unless the atm goes fubar

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Where theft is legal, apparantly. Or it should be legal if you don't have much money. Or some equally similar shite.

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Doing that is tantamount to thievery. It's like if you go buy some chips and the cashier gives you back a $100 bill as change instead of a $1. Just do the right thing and be honest about it.

The problem is that most people are just geedy as hell, and will take advantage of a situation by rationalizing it as not being wrong, as in this case.

Hell, if I was there I'd be tempted to unplug the machine. People would probably want to give out a few doses of ass-whoopings if someone did that though.

But, I'm sure the bank will figure out who took advantage of the situation and will charge them in full.

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it would be malignent or thievery if they purposely sabotaged an atm to do that. but if an atm gives out incorrect cash, you ask for 10 and get 20 i don't believe that to be stealing or thievery. when i was younger early 20's, teens i would keep what ever cash i found/given by mistake

when i used to deliver pizzas and people would give me more money than they realized i would keep it. now i usually hand money back if it is more than it should be

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yah i suppose doing it continuously would be wrong. although is it any different if an atm just spits out money and people take it?????

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I mean, do the math.

They got a 20 instead of a 10, so they'd be getting extra money if they were withdrawing amounts divisible by 10, but not by 20.

If you tried to withdraw, say 90, then you'd get the four 20's you're <i>supposed</i> to get, plus a fifth 20 instead of a 10. That's only a profit of 10 pounds on the 90 you took out.

The best way to do that by anybody with a brain is to just ask for a withdrawal of 10. That way, you make 100% profit; an extra 10 for every 10 you take out.

If the thing gave out 15,000 pounds like that, then that's 1,500 transactions. In 5 hours? By people treating it like "a gold rush." Sounds kinda malignant, don't ya think?

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I think any adult with a brain would know that an ATM isn't just supposed to just start spitting out wads of cash. You'd know which bank the money belonged to, and could return it, if you wanted to do the right thing. Just like the people in the article <i>could</i> have done, but didn't.

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If I found a large bag of cash? I'd like to think that I'd try to find who it belonged to. Probably some type of financial institution. Call the police, maybe? If it was legit money, they'd probably hear about it. If it was drug money or something, I don't know what would happen to it. Wouldn't be easy to do the right thing with it, but the right thing is frequently not the easiest.

If I found a 20 on the ground? Ask around to see if anybody dropped it. In other words, return it to its owner, <i>if possible</i>. Funny you should ask. I dropped a $10 while ordering a beer at a bar a couple months ago. Had it in my pocket, wedged against my wallet, instead of in the wallet. Came out when I pulled my wallet out. Some guy told me about it instead of waiting for me to walk off, and then snagging it. Bought him a beer and said thanks.

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Well, I don't overdraw, and I pay credit card balances off every time I actually use it, so I don't have to worry about that.

I reckon it all comes down to what you see as right and wrong, and your own conscience, jihiggs. I don't have to live with your conscience. That's up to you. You know, on the rare chance you ever find a bag full of money, or an ATM spitting out wads of bills.

In the meantime, maybe you should just focus on being more responsible with your money, and less on what to do if you find that magical bag of money.

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If you have two credit cards, one with 0% and another with 14%, and you miss a payment or screw up with the 14% one they will raise your 0% to the non promotional rate as if you were late on their card.

Did that make sense? In other words if you screw up with one card there is a good chance that all your other cards will lose their promotional or better rate. It's guilt by association. The banks are forced to get you on fees and penalties since the interest rates are so low right now.

I only have one card, an Amex, and I pay it off every month. I don't mess around.

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if i found a large sum of cash i probably would turn it in. because knowing if i ever lost a large sum of cash i would hope someone would turn it in..




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was it actually addressed to him or rec'd by mistake, for 4 million you can take the family with you

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what would people here do if that happened???????

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if i rec'd a check for 4 million dollars from sbc i would cash it and say sayanora.

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Doh! Busted again. Not too badly, though. Coulda been worse.

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Yeah, that would have been the embarassing part. The crap that it was over. I mean, come on! A Stratus?!?!

*shakes head in disbelief*

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Then it should have at least been a nice crew-cab F150 or something, ya know!

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