Asked for £10 from the ATM and it gave me £70 ?

will it be found out?

ATM Engineer said:
nope unless person says it. The machine knows how much it is giving out, a couple of notes extra yeah i have heard of but not by that much. The whole thing works off note thickness and magnets, they could have loaded the note cassettes wrong. Like when you ask for 10 and get a 20. 9 times out of ten it is a bank error not machine
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PiKe said:
Yep, though they'll know you have it when they check the machine logs.

You may get a letter asking for it back.
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Can they prove you got the extra money? you pressed £10 and your bank says -£10 the money could be anywhere and they can't prove you physically walked away with £70 surely.
 
[Serious face] It's technically theft and people have been prosecuted for it in the past [/serious face]

[Normal face] But just keep quiet and get drunk with it! :p [/normal face]
 
Its 50/50 - the logs _might_ show a difference or it might be too vague to narrow it down to one customer.

If you can't afford £70 out of pocket then I'd hang onto it for awhile, if not take the chance.
 
If the government has majority shareholding, you're only stealing from them... Who in turn have stole from the Taxpayer with the stupid expenses thing.
 
asim18 said:
I went to Halifax with a friend. He counted and put £170 in the automatic deposit machine. As we were walking out the receipt said he deposited £370. :D

He bought me lunch and a bottle of vodka for going to the bank with him. :)
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The money doesn't get cleared into your account until they open the envelope and manually input it though, he'll only have got £170 into his account in the end even if it showed as £370 straight away
 
Even if you get caught, just pay the £60 back and nothing will come of it. If you don't get caught, you're £60 up. Nothing good will come of reporting it to the bank.

Wasn't there a thread on here recently with some dude who mistakenly had £19000 dumped in his account? He reported it (and to be honest, so would I because that's a scary amount of money to just "appear"), and as a thank-you for his trouble, they shut down his bank account while they investigated. He couldn't even buy food or pay his rent for several months. Eventually they just took the £19000 back and reopened his account without so much as a word of apology.

The bank is not your friend. Do not be any nicer to them than they would be nice to you.
 
Abraham said:
The money doesn't get cleared into your account until they open the envelope and manually input it though, he'll only have got £170 into his account in the end even if it showed as £370 straight away
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What envelope?

It was an automatic machine, you put your debit card in, then shove the cash in and it counts the money automatically on the spot and gives you a receipt there and then.
 
asim18 said:
What envelope?

It was an automatic machine, you put your debit card in, then shove the cash in and it counts the money automatically on the spot and gives you a receipt there and then.
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There is a little chicken inside who puts your money into envelopes. surely you knew that. :D
 
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