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- From: henry@ads.com (Henry Mensch)
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- Subject: Re: Good Opportunity For Fraud
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:21:12 GMT
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- From: Patrick Lee <patlee@Panix.Com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 18:33:21 -0500 (EST)
-
- > The Citibank ATM's in Chicago eat the card for a minute and
- > spit it out when finished with it.
-
- > I guess Chicago's Citibank has older ATM machines than we have here in
- > New York City.
-
- Actually, they have newer ones. Citibank was, I think, the first bank
- in the New York metro area to offer ATM cards ... and they designed
- all their own hardware (nobody else was doing it at the time). From
- day one, Citibank ATMs in New York did not have the possibility of
- retaining your card (they even used to advertise this fact ... some
- customers early on were wary of machines which "ate" the card for a
- while).
-
- Citibank banks in other parts of the country are different banks using
- what looks like any of the usual range of ATM machines available to
- banks everywhere.
-
- Some inaccuracies have probably crept in; it's been many years since
- This info was useful to me.
-
-
- # henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc. / <henry@ads.com>
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: We still have some machines of the type where you
- dip the card, and a few where you swipe it through a card reader, then
- imprint a receipt and take the receipt to a cashier for payout (at the
- grocery store.) PAT
-