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Re: Use cash machines as little as possible

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor.Duchovni@MorganStanley.com)
Wed Jul 7 11:19:45 2004

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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:55:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Victor.Duchovni@MorganStanley.com
To: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040704142211.03da5880@mail.comcast.net>

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:

>
>
> http://www.thisislondon.com/news/business/articles/timid80044?source=
> http://www.thisismoney.com/20040704/nm80044.html
>
> ONE of Britain's biggest banks is asking customers to use cash
> machines as little as possible to help combat soaring card fraud.
>

Why on earth do they suggest that using ATM cards in retail stores is
safer than using them in an ATM machine? I know about problems with ATM
machines in convenience stores, but why is use of ATM machines in bank
branches less safe than point-of-sale ATM transactions at a supermarket?

-- 
	Viktor.

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