Comments on: 7 mysteries about ATM Machines

By: jesuscrusher

jesuscrusher — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:53:34 +0000

ever wonder why atms all have metal buttons? well a few years ago my friends and i heard about a little trick where you can take a metal screen out of a faucet and put it over your finger while you push the buttons for your transaction and the machine wont take out the money from your account but it will still still spit out the cash we used that trick for about 3 months and got about $5000 before one day the atm popped up with a message about us being in violation of article blah blah blah we still dont know why that trick worked but we have a theory about the metal butttons reading your fingerprints through thermal imaging or something thats why it would still take the money out of the account if you were wearing gloves and it couldnt read your fingerprints but with a metal screen over your finger it would read a fucked up fingerprint and assume someone was trying to steal money from your account or something like that but thats just a theory we really have no idea why it worked but it did and thats all that mattered

By: The Answers to 7 Mysteries of ATM Machines | Credit Card Blog

The Answers to 7 Mysteries of ATM Machines | Credit Card Blog — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:20:33 +0000

[...] digg_skin = ‘compact’; digg_window = ‘new’; In my previous post, I talked about how 7 questions about ATMs bother me alot. So I did bit of a research to get these answer. The answers below are true to the [...]

By: joe

joe — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:39:30 +0000

… and …

Why are they _so_ ergonomically ridiculous?
- Select language, on screen (sometimes keypad allows 1, 2 keys to select
- Enter PIN on the keypad … won’t take enter, have to swing back to the touchscreen to enter.
- select action on touchscreen, e.g., withdrawal (woot! we didn’t have to swing back to the keypad!)
- enter amount on the keypad swing back to touchscreen (sometimes enter on keypad does work)
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you get the idea