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Old 16-08-2023, 12:19 PM #1
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Default Bank of Ireland: Thousands queue up as cash machines give out free money by mistake

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Grab that FREE cash

[Thousands of people were last night queuing around
the block outside some branches to
withdraw money that they did not have
in their own accounts]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ge-glitch.html



[In some cases,
the fault with the online app allowed
people who have no money in their account
to transfer up to € 1,000 into a Revolut account.

They can then withdraw the cash from the
Revolut account through any ATM.
As word and videos spread quickly on social media,
the frenzied withdrawal of cash in
Dublin, Limerick and Navan, Co.
Meath among other locations, continued until
the gardaí clamped down despite warnings
on social media that there is no such thing
as free cash and the money will
have to be repaid.

In a statement after 11pm last night,
Bank of Ireland warned customers
that any money taken from their account
will be debited.]

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they will end up in trouble. Taking money that you don't own is fraud and every atm takes photos of the people who use them
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they will end up in trouble. Taking money that you don't own is fraud and every atm takes photos of the people who use them
It would be easy enough to claim ignorance/accident but I dunno why anyone thinks it's free money... the account will just go overdrawn, so they'll have to pay it back + interest (and likely an additional charge for unauthorised overdraft use) and since it'll be outwith their official OD limit, they won't be able to access any actual money that gets paid into the accounts, unless they can negotiate a genuine OD.

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