I'm interested in reading the follow-up to this. I don't think I'll be surprised to learn that these guys used their own ATM cards to withdraw the money.

I doubt they were ever giving out $1 bills at any time.

From reading the article what it looks like they did was to tell the machine it's $20 slots were actually filled with $1 bills. That would then make it dispense $400 actual dollars when the machine thought it was only $20.

CheddarPants: I'm interested in reading the follow-up to this. I don't think I'll be surprised to learn that these guys used their own ATM cards to withdraw the money.

If they used a stolen card why would they bother with altering the machine?

dj_bigbird: While I am against theft, people who use the default password/PIN/etc that is in an owners manual without changing it deserve to get pwn3d.

ATM cards come with a default PIN and an owners manual?

I love PNC ATMs. If you ask for $75, they'll dispense three $20, one $10, and 5 $1. It's great.

Strip Clubs

Mugato:

/you can't get ATM for $1 either

Depends on the hooker.

dj_bigbird: BigDumbGuy: ATM cards come with a default PIN and an owners manual?

No, but you can get into the machine's configuration by doing specific key strokes and then entering a sooper-seekrit password.

Oh, I see what you mean now. The bank should have changed the codes. Forgive me. I am not very smart.

Something something something ATM machine

Something something something PIN number

/obligatory

PNC has new ATM machines with $1 denominations.

\just to be snarky
\\I use my PIN number at the ATM machine

I'm really old and remember the dark days before ATM's (and the bright days after ATM's, but before ATM fees), and I have never seen one that dispensed singles. Heck, finding one with 10's or 5's is hard these days.

ATM?


2 words: Teagan Presley

You never go ATM

fark an ATM.

Bring back the MAC Machine!

awesome idea.

get $3 from ATM, along with a $3.50 surcharge.

recoil:
From reading the article what it looks like they did was to tell the machine it's $20 slots were actually filled with $1 bills. That would then make it dispense $400 actual dollars when the machine thought it was only $20.

You seem too clever to be a Farker.

I have to assume that the machine did not actually hold any singles to dispense, just that it is a possible setting for the hardware. So you program it to think that the twenties bin is holding singles.

I've seen stories where they set it to think it had fives. Same deal, just more lucrative.

/If the article proves me wrong, then DRTFA, nya-nya-na-naaa-na.

McGinley Square: You never go ATM

not even just once?

Well That story sucked.

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It's possible that someone has thought of this before...

vegasj: awesome idea.

get $3 from ATM, along with a $3.50 surcharge.

That's why I love Wal-Mart/Target/Home Depot..... $.79 for a pack of gum. $50 dollars cash back...total charge $50.79 and no "fee" attached!

/fresh breath to boot

dj_bigbird: While I am against theft, people who use the default password/PIN/etc that is in an owners manual without changing it deserve to get pwn3d.

What? When you get an ATM card, your bank asks you to create a PIN while you're applying for the account/card. There is no such thing a a "default PIN" for ATM cards.

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nothumbs: PNC has new ATM machines with $1 denominations.

\just to be snarky
\\I use my PIN number at the ATM machine

Does that mean I can finally get that farking 3 dollars out of my savings account that has haunted me for years?

Sorry, dj, I didn't read the whole thread. I now see where you are referring to the ATM machine interface software, not the ATM cards given to patrons.

ATMs in strip clubs dispense singles.
(and charge a $10 fee)

BTW... ATM is short for Automatic Teller Machine, so ATM "Machine" is redundant.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I prefer cash in $20s.

If they used a stolen card why would they bother with altering the machine?

I think it works more like:

1) Buy a debit card in a cash transaction
2) Go to the target location(s) retrieving 20 times your investment
3) Rinse, repeat

/no risk of getting caught stealing cards, no need to determine PIN

I only recently found out that you can get $10 bills from an ATM.

I don't fark wit' anything smaller than $20s anyway, ya know what I mean?

Now if I could just reprogram the soda machine to dispense beer...

*sigh* idiots end users .. default passcodes... smart thieves.. stupid ATM owners..

To answer BigDumbGuy If they used a stolen card why would they bother with altering the machine?

if the stolen ATM card had access to $400.. and you asked a non-modified ATM for that $400 it would pay out twenty $20 bills.

now modify that ATM to think it is loaded with $1 bills.. it would spit out 400 "dollar" bills that are actually $20 bills.. for a total of... $8000... which would you rather take??

/serves the owner right
/change your passwords!!
/applies to your wireless routers too!!

dj_bigbird: While I am against theft, people who use the default password/PIN/etc that is in an owners manual without changing it deserve to get pwn3d.

Lockboxes on forsale/foreclosed properties are even worse.
There are basically 10 different combos the entire industry uses.

Diebold machines were able to change votes for Kerry into votes for Bush and this is even easier.

BigDumbGuy: CheddarPants: I'm interested in reading the follow-up to this. I don't think I'll be surprised to learn that these guys used their own ATM cards to withdraw the money.

If they used a stolen card why would they bother with altering the machine?


To get more money than what is in the accounts of the stolen cards.

SO the trailer park boys got their grade ten and figured out what the internet was?

anal brazil men: I love PNC ATMs. If you ask for $75, they'll dispense three $20, one $10, and 5 $1. It's great.

this. PNC rocks. I like taking out $39 and getting a $20, a $10, and 9 singles.

Hugh2d2: Diebold machines were able to change votes for Kerry into votes for Bush and this is even easier.

And look how much money that cost everyone.

NikolaiFarkoff: Buh? Never seen that in my lifetime.

There's one at the UofMN that used to dispense as small as a $5, which is the lowest I've ever seen. $10 are not uncommon.

/$5 ATM is on the West bank, in the basement of the SocSci tower (Tunnel between SocSci, Blegen, and Wilson Library). It's been a couple years, no idea if it's still there.