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[Rat boy]

A bank at closing time has loaded up their machine, that is now giving out double cash.

That is bad journalism. And the reports are exageratted.

The norm ATM uses x2 £20, and x2 £10 =£60k, other sites differ, ie student sites use £5's, or vouchers are issued.

So Lloyds use a traditional method of loading; so either a reed switch failed (unlikely), or a muppet loaded the wrong cash into the wrong cassette. So you would not receive double money, as they don't dispense that way.

If you order £50, you get x2 £20, 1x£10. If you ordered that - you would get x2 £20, plus another £20. Not double. Impossible.

The machine would likely to break down, due to bad reads, as the rejected notes would fill the purge bin to overfill, within a short time, and knock the dispenser out, as £20's are too large to fit in the £10's cartridge, so would be stuck, and purged.


Always a feelgood story in the media, but sadly untrue largely, and the audit roll, that is printed off, and also stored electronically.

[Dave]

Makes no difference which notes are used to dispense the cash, if there is a problem with the computer / system, a glitch could easily cause it to dispense the cash twice

It happens often, guy goes to machine, machine gives massive amount of money, guy either gives it back, or gets caught and has to repay it