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- From: Jay.Ashworth@f8649.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth)
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- Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
- Message-ID: <739.2B0A0AF3@mechanic.Fidonet.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:52:00 PDT
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- Brent, to All on 16 Nov 92:
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- B> Actually, it *debits* your account, and it's often faster than
- B> "immediately." What I mean is, when you want $20 from your account, the
- B> machine first accesses your account, and then withdraws the $20. Your
- B> account balance is now lower. The machine *then* checks to see if it
- B> can actually give you the money. If it can, then it does(of course) and
- B> if it can't, then it *credits* your account by $20. It seems to me
- B> that the machine should see if it can give that amount to begin with,
- B> rather than tinkering with the account so much.
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- Interesting. You've programmed one?
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- B> All ATM's I've used have an upper limit of $200 or $300 per day.
- B> If you need $1000, it'll take you 4 days to do it.
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- Depends on the account type, the bank, the network, and many other variables. A friend regularly pulls $400 out at a time.
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- Cheers,
- -- jra
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