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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:00:48 GMT
- From: eo@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Ed Oliveri)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Good Opportunity For Fraud
- Message-ID: <telecom13.20.14@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: AT&T
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 20, Message 14 of 17
- Lines: 26
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- In article <telecom13.7.7@eecs.nwu.edu> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- (John R. Levine) writes:
-
- > Citibank machines in New York City at least used to have a similar
- > feature. For a long time, over a year, someone who clearly had inside
- > information was using an old invalid Citicard to make $100 withdrawals
- > from machines all over the city when the machines were offline while
- > their network nodes were down for maintenance. The maintenance
- > schedule was deliberately erratic and quite secret. Had the guy used
- > the card even once in an on-line machine the card would have been
- > eaten and that would have been that. I never heard whether they
- > managed to catch him. I'd think that it would have been
- > straightforward to set up a sting to catch him in the act.
-
- Are you sure this was Citibank? Every Citibank ATM I've seen CANNOT
- eat a card since the card is dipped into the card reader, never
- leaving the user's fingers.
-
-
- Ed Oliveri, eo@cbnewsb.att.com OR att!cbnewsb!eo
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: The Citibank ATM's in Chicago eat the card for a
- minute and spit it out when finished with it. PAT]
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