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- From: boyd@acsu.buffalo.edu (Daniel F Boyd)
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- Subject: Re: ATM fraud
- Message-ID: <BunExF.Fyw@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 16 Sep 92 02:00:51 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.115050.8694@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1992Sep14.085441.28829@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> <unruh.716579030@physics.ubc.ca> <1992Sep15.185901.15924@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
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- In article <1992Sep15.185901.15924@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
- wcollin@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Collins - E41) writes:
-
- > [...] [A] keypad for entering PIN like identification numbers. You
- > press a start button which randomly enumerates the keypad with a
- > different sequence [...] You also have to be pretty much dirrectly
- > in front of the keypad to view the numbers.
-
- Heck, they have one of these guarding the door to the main machine
- room (dinosaur pen) at SUNY-Binghamton where I went for undergrad.
-
- Last year, after instrument thefts, they got one for the musical
- instrument room!
-
- I can't imagine that these cost too much, they're really simple!
-
- But remember: Banking losses due to fraud are dwarfed by banking
- losses due to non-payment of debts. Why should a bank spend ten
- gazillion dollars to stop a million a year in thefts from ATMs, when
- they could spend a mere zillion dollars on a good commercial loan
- officer and get millions more?
-
- (Note that a gazillion is 'much more than a zillion'.)
-
-
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