[8-9-06] The ultimate ATM bug!
Recently, in Ekaterinburg, Russia, a man was innocently depositing 2,000 roubles ($US74) in an ATM. The ATM proceeded to credit his account with 2 billion rubles. Pretty good! Being a good citizen the man went into bank and explained the situation to a bored clerk. The clerk, it turned out, wasn't interested and informed the man that he, the clerk, wasn't interested, and he had better things to do!
I would have given up at this stage, but our man was made of sterner stuff. Going back to the machine he proceeded to withdraw cash, occasionally feeding some of it back into the machine until he had accumulated 20 billion rubles (US$74 million). The money he had withdrawn was packed into shoe boxes and trundled into the bank, where the sight of so much cash finally shocked the staff into doing something.
All the bank's ATMs have now been turned off. There is no word on when they will be back up. Hmmm... I wonder what happened to the guy who wrote the ATM program!
Source - Risks Digest
I would have given up at this stage, but our man was made of sterner stuff. Going back to the machine he proceeded to withdraw cash, occasionally feeding some of it back into the machine until he had accumulated 20 billion rubles (US$74 million). The money he had withdrawn was packed into shoe boxes and trundled into the bank, where the sight of so much cash finally shocked the staff into doing something.
All the bank's ATMs have now been turned off. There is no word on when they will be back up. Hmmm... I wonder what happened to the guy who wrote the ATM program!
Source - Risks Digest