ATM Gives Big Payouts
This overly generous ATM is causing trouble for a lot of people in Mansfield, Louisiana. I guess it’s never as simple as the Monopoly Chance card: "Bank Error in Your Favor," etc. The bank is actually demanding that those who benefitted from this malfunction pay back the extra cash.
An ATM at a northwest Louisiana truck stop gave out $20 bills instead of $5 bills, but authorities say they know who used it and plan to pursue the extra $7,000 the machine spit out.
DeSoto Parish sheriff’s Lt. Toni Morris said the automated teller machine has records identifying the 26 people who received the extra cash during five days in late June and early July.
Annette Parker, a supervisor at Eagle’s Truck Stop, said she unplugged the machine after overhearing conversations about the excess payments.
"The next morning when we had come back in, someone had plugged it back up," she said.
Morris said someone who did not work at the truck stop may have rigged the machine, which keeps records of when money is received and whose card is used.
Morris said charges could be brought against the people who got more money than was debited to their bank accounts.
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1 opinion for ATM Gives Big Payouts
Ed Ingram
Aug 16, 2007 at 11:11 am
I saw a news article a few months ago that claimed someone had figured out how to re-program the atm’s through the keypad. I’m pretty skeptical but it was supposedly checked out by he news team.
Anyone else have any info on this?
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