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People using ATMs with stashes of cards...

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  • 02-07-2015 6:34pm
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    H3llR4iser
    Registered Users Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭


    Ok ladies and gentlemen, this might very well be nothing worth talking about, but I recently ended up queuing at ATMs behind people who, upon getting to the machine, produce a stash of cards and proceed to go through them, inserting one after the other as if sort of "testing".

    I couldn't tell what they were doing exactly, I was at "privacy distance" only close enough to notice the unusual number of cards, a deck about 1 inch thick - which would mean 15-20 cards. People might have multiple accounts and maybe some credit/prepay cards, but such a number seems excessive unless we're talking about Bernie Ecclestone.

    I have seen this twice in the last couple of weeks, in different places (Douglas and Mahon Point). I can't help but wonder if there could be some scam in the making...


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    okedoke
    Registered Users Posts: 921 ✭✭✭okedoke


    greek tourists?


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    SomeFool
    Registered Users Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭SomeFool


    Encountered one cast iron selfish gob****e in the AIB self service kiosk on Winthrop St early one morning who looked like he was lodging to two dozen different accounts, kindly told me he was going to be a while. :( :mad:


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    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,064 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    What really annoys me at ATMs is people who queue at the ATM and only when they actually get to it do they then start rummaging in their bag or wallet for their card. Seriously could you not have had the card ready and consider other users?


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    horgan_p
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,604 Mod ✭✭✭✭horgan_p


    There's a multitude of people who seem to be applying for a mortgage at the atm given the amount of time it takes.

    Seriously : 4 digits, which account, how much

    Simples


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    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    i reckon with banks moving a lot of services online, people who can't use the internet banking are hogging atm's.

    they won't use the inside ones for fear of staff seeing them taking ages and asking if they need help so instead use the kiosks and atm's holding everyone else up as they pay their bills/lodge money/withdraw money/move money around.


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    Chemical Byrne
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Chemical Byrne


    Could be someone with a load of stolen/skimmed cards?


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    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    What really annoys me at ATMs is people who queue at the ATM and only when they actually get to it do they then start rummaging in their bag or wallet for their card. Seriously could you not have had the card ready and consider other users?

    When you say 'people' I take it you mean Women. It's not surprising as they do the same rummaging when they suddenly realise they have to pay for their shopping at the checkout.


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    Milly33
    Registered Users Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭Milly33


    I swear people are playing pac man at machines.. totally agree or should I say Tots now!! People should have the cards ready to go..

    I know some atm machines are slow but jes sometimes it makes me so angry your like wtf are you doing.. Card, pin, money go that's it..


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    vector
    Registered Users Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭vector


    even when you do use one card the machines are so slow...
    theres waiting time...
    its like using an old DOS computer...
    [card is put in]
    there is a meaningless 3 seconds
    [pin entered]
    there is a meaningless 2 seconds
    [are you sure you want to use this ATM, there may be a fee?]
    there is a meaningless 2 seconds

    etc etc etc

    [card is ejected]
    there is a meaningless 5 seconds
    [money comes out]


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    keithclancy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,222 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    vector wrote: »
    even when you do use one card the machines are so slow...
    theres waiting time...
    its like using an old DOS computer...
    [card is put in]
    there is a meaningless 3 seconds
    [pin entered]
    there is a meaningless 2 seconds
    [are you sure you want to use this ATM, there may be a fee?]
    there is a meaningless 2 seconds

    etc etc etc

    [card is ejected]
    there is a meaningless 5 seconds
    [money comes out]

    Many of the ATMs around are still old DOS computers, or running Windows 95, i've even seen a SUPER slow Sparkasse (German Bank) one using OS/2 Warp

    I was using a Santander ATM Machine there last week and while waiting for the money to come out a pop up appeared saying the Macaffee Virus Definitions were not up to date :D


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    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,433 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    This is why your been held up OP:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW5ELKTivbE


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    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭doolox


    It also happens at self service checkouts. SLOW people taking their time holding everybody else up because they cannot work fast enough to reduce the ever increasing queues building up behind them.

    I also notice that if a person in front of me is slow with their payment or make delaying requests etc the cashier takes it out on me by hurrying through my purchase and pushing me out of the way in order to get through the built up queue faster.

    It is as if the slow mo creature has stolen my time.

    Worst was the creature who answered her phone in the middle of a self service purchase and delayed every one in the queue with her all important call........


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    H3llR4iser
    Registered Users Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    Yeah, there are a lot of people who manage to waste inordinate amounts of time at an ATM machine, and "slowness of the system" has no part in it. Otherwise it doesn't explain why the next guy and me take only 25 seconds to complete the transaction. However...
    Chemical Byrne wrote: »
    Could be someone with a load of stolen/skimmed cards?

    This is what I was wondering about. When you see somebody "parking" themselves at the ATM with a deck of cards, trying them one by one and muttering something when some of them doesn't work, you can't help but wonder.


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