balidey
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 12:43 PM |
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Am I thick? How does this scam work
watched 'The Real Hustle' on BBC3 last night, a scam on there involved the pretty girl going into a shop. The shop has one of those
standalone cash machines. 
Aparantly they have a PIN code to allow you to alter menu settings, one they showed last night was to swap over the directory path for the £10 tray
and £20 tray, so when she then asked it for a tenner, out spat a £20. Free money.
But here's where I don't get it, they then asked the cash machine for £100 and she gets £200.
But does she? If you ask for £100 from an ATM then most of its in £20's yes? So theres a good posibility they only got given £50, ie they lost
money.
Or did I miss something? (purely out of interest, I'm not going to the Spa shop later..... honest)
[Edited on 4/4/08 by balidey]
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02GF74
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 12:54 PM |
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agree - I find that most cash machine tend to give out the majority in £ 20 and the last 10 or 20 as £ 10 notes.
only explanation is thqat maybe the standalone ones use all £ 10 but then why have a £ 20 tray.
seems wrong and I am too fyk to work it out, Mr Whippy will know the answer for sure.
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balidey
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 12:57 PM |
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quote:
Mr Whippy will know the answer for sure.
Why, is he a criminal? 
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scottc
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 12:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by balidey
quote:
Mr Whippy will know the answer for sure.
Why, is he a criminal?
Mr Whippy knows everything
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 01:02 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by balidey
quote:
Mr Whippy will know the answer for sure.
Why, is he a criminal?
sorry I'm still stumped at how -
'the pretty girl going into a shop with one of those standalone cash machines'
how? she got a forklift or something? 
[Edited on 4/4/08 by Mr Whippy]
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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balidey
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 01:07 PM |
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quote:
the pretty girl going into a shop. The shop has one of those standalone cash machines.
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Mole
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 01:16 PM |
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It's easy. They ran out of genuine scams a long time ago and have long since been making them up. Clearly they didn't think this one
through enough.
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eznfrank
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 02:26 PM |
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as a fraud investigator of around 10 years now i would quite happily go on the record as saying 90% of what that program shows is absolute tosh!! Yes
some of the scams may work in theory but just simply don't happen in the real world.
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balidey
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 02:59 PM |
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Well, I only watch it for the pretty girl
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eznfrank
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 04:38 PM |
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Oh yeah - I still watch it too for that same reason. Her website is "educational" 
[Edited on 4/4/08 by eznfrank]
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Mansfield
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 06:24 PM |
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HUBBA HUBBA!
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Mark G
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 07:56 PM |
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perhaps if they can swap the directory for the tray they're probably aware of how to tell the machine that the £20's are empty so it only
pays out in £10's (£20's).
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eznfrank
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 08:06 PM |
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I think more likely they just didn't think it through. Once a bank realised that something like that had happened they would simply contact all
people who had withdrawn money and ask for the difference back. Those who chose not to refund the money could in theory be reported to police for
"retaining a wrongful credit".
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charlierevell
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| posted on 4/4/08 at 09:21 PM |
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Could they not have set both to the same drawer number?
Edit: Actually, forget it I dont care.... Im lost in her website!
And she has one boob much larger than the other!
[Edited on 4/4/08 by charlierevell]
[Edited on 4/4/08 by charlierevell]
Tango orange is an 'IN' colour!!
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