A trivial technical problem ran the risk of seriously damaging a bank’s accounts in the UK. The curious episode took place on October 11 in DundeeScotland: Police were called to disperse a crowd gathered outside a bank ATM on Charleston Drive to withdraw cash.
On the surface it looked like a normal situation, but it wasn’t. The reason? The machine dispensed twice the amount requested, without deducting any additional amount from the customer’s credit.
The rumor spread quickly and soon large numbers of people rushed to line up at the faulty counter to take advantage of the situation. As reported by The mailwho spoke to an eyewitness, the “party” went on for a few hours until, around 4:20 pm, a passerby reported the incident to the police.
Once they arrived at the branch, agents dispersed the crowd and disabled the malfunctioning ATM. The police then informed the manufacturer of that ATM of the malfunction, who will have to identify the reason for the malfunction and carry out the necessary repairs.
As reported byExpress, the city of Dundee had already been the scene of a similar episode in 2011. In this circumstance, an operator had told customers (they still took out more money than requested) that they could also keep the “extra value” without problems. . But under Scottish law, withholding money paid by mistake is considered a crime.
A case very similar to the one that took place in Dundee this year already took place last June in India, in the district of Nagpur. Here, too, a faulty counter attracted a large crowd of people: due to a glitch in the system, in fact, the machine was dispensing amounts equal to five times those selected by the customers.
Source: Fan Page IT
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