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- Date: 23 Jan 1993 01:28:32 GMT
- From: dan@phoenix.az.stratus.com (Dan Danz)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Good Opportunity For Fraud
- Message-ID: <telecom13.39.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 39, Message 6 of 12
- Lines: 28
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- Quite some years ago, in my previous job, I travelled frequently to
- New York City with a co-worker who, everytime we passed an ATM of a
- certain brand and model, would walk up to it and punch in a few
- numbers. You know, sort of like the people that absent-mindedly open
- the coin-return door on a payphone.
-
- After a few times, I got curious and asked why he made the effort. He
- said that he had worked for the manufacturer of that particular ATM
- during college. His job was at the end of the assembly line; he
- tested the bill dispenser by entering the secret code for supervisor
- state and then entering a diagnostic code that made the dispenser
- cycle through the dispense cycle as fast as it could go.
-
- He just _KNEW_ he'd find an ATM where somebody had left it in
- supervisor state after doing some work on it ...
-
- If he ever does, there'll be a snowstorm of bills coming out.
-
- He never would tell ME the code, though.
-
-
- L. W. "Dan" Danz (WA5SKM) VOS Mail: Dan_Danz@vos.stratus.com
- Sr Consulting Software SE NeXT Mail: dan@az.stratus.com
- Customer Assistance Center Voice Mail/Pager: (602) 852-3107
- Telecommunications Division Customer Service: (800) 828-8513
- Stratus Computer, Inc. 4455 E. Camelback #115-A, Phoenix AZ 85018
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