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From: paul@infotel.UUCP (paul)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Citibank, ATM, electronic transactions
Summary: ATM problems
Message-ID: <27775@infotel.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 90 19:05:00 GMT
References: <103481@philabs.Philips.Com>
Distribution: usa
Organization: StarTel Inc, Bryan , Texas
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In article <103481@philabs.Philips.Com>, mii@philabs.philips.com (Melik I. Isbara) writes:
> When I received my last bank statement, I have noticed three transactions
> in which $900 dollars were withdrawn from my accounts from a Citibank
> ATM machine at a downtown NYC branch which I have never used. 
> ($900 were withdrawn in three transactions.)
> 
> FACTS:
> 	1.  I did not do those transactions.
> 	2.  When they took place I was at work out of NYC.
> 	3.  I did not lose my bankcard or give it to anyone.
> 	4.  I did not write down my password or tell it to anyone.

	A good friend of my had a similar problem to yours.  Money kept
disappearing from his account thru a local ATM, even after he told them
to cancel his ATM card.  After many threats the bank reviewed their security
tapes and came back that a girl in a sports car with black hair was the
one withdrawing money.  They ask if he knew any girls with black hair
(this is a form of positive ID I guess) to which he answered yes.  They 
said that obviously he had allowed her to use his card.  He cut up his
only ATM card in front of them and transactions still kept happening.  
He finally closed his account but never got any money back. The bank
said that the total amount in question was under some limit at which
point they would become liable.

I wish you luck.

Paul Bilke
StarTel Inc.
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