Card left in ATM

ianian99

kevin.philips wrote:

Dude, chill out no need to get like that, it appears you must live in an area where the authorities don't perform the functions of the job they are paid for, personally I'd move if the local security services didn't investigate such crucial evidence to a crime and I'd also report it to the chief constable as a very serious complaint - regardless of the seriousness of the crime, the Police like other are a public service and are obliged to investigate crimes.

chill out? I am chilled, just curious to find out what the VERY good authority that says that police will investigate all minor crimes or even lost property as I know for a fact that they don't.

Jay-Jay_4

ianian99 wrote:

chill out? I am chilled, just curious to find out what the VERY good authority that says that police will investigate all minor crimes or even lost property as I know for a fact that they don't.

You have a PM

kevin

denys wrote:

Looked here with some interest.

Really that sounded odd and lacking info.

Apart from the noise ATM makes, it also swallows your card back after dozen of beeps.

The criminal next in line should have known your PIN to be able to change it. I am not aware of any ATM which would allow changing PIN without re-entering the old one first. And if card is returned into the same branch explaining that it was found nearby it should not be cancelled, therefore PIN changed within reasonable time (certainly not within 10 minutes) to allow customer to come back for it.

Only £200… If it is not your withdrawal limit or what was left of it…

Card returned. Hard to imagine criminal not destroying the card after taking money, unless someone was watching, in which case he/she could not have taken money at the first place.

And the strangest part – Halifax returning money within 3 weeks.

Anyway eccentric criminals and extremely nice bank workers are pretty common nowadays…

It is good you have your money back.

Denys, you seem to be suggesting the whole thing was made up?

Please read the original mail and others responses. The ATM would not necessarily have returned the card and beeped as my wife did not take out cash, she paid in a cheque. It was likely left at the 'Do you require another service' screen. All we know was that a £200 withdrawal appeared on our statement, the card was handed in to the bank and the pin didn't work in another shop a few hours later. The rest was just a guess about what happened - It doesn't make sense to me either! Perhaps you have an alternative suggestion? But I know my wife isn't a thief.

The bank have investigated and refunded the money. They have given no information about what their findings were so we will never know what really happened.

Stubbarama

Kevin, great to hear you got your money back. Must be a weight of your mind.

As far as other posts go, I think it is extremely rude to suggest someone goign through somehting like this made it up, why would they post it on a BB ?

And if there was CCTV evidence in a crime, and the authorities did not use it, you would have grounds to claim against them.

Paul_Herring

ianian99 wrote:

Kevin wrote:

Dude, chill out no need to get like that, it appears you must live in an area where the authorities don't perform the functions of the job they are paid for, personally I'd move if the local security services didn't investigate such crucial evidence to a crime and I'd also report it to the chief constable as a very serious complaint - regardless of the seriousness of the crime, the Police like other are a public service and are obliged to investigate crimes.

chill out? I am chilled, just curious to find out what the VERY good authority that says that police will investigate all minor crimes or even lost property as I know for a fact that they don't.

Somewhat off topic, but you don't live in Boscombe do you? http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1705676,00.html

denys

kevin wrote:

Denys, you seem to be suggesting the whole thing was made up?

Please read the original mail and others responses. The ATM would not necessarily have returned the card and beeped as my wife did not take out cash, she paid in a cheque. It was likely left at the 'Do you require another service' screen. All we know was that a £200 withdrawal appeared on our statement, the card was handed in to the bank and the pin didn't work in another shop a few hours later. The rest was just a guess about what happened - It doesn't make sense to me either! Perhaps you have an alternative suggestion? But I know my wife isn't a thief.

The bank have investigated and refunded the money. They have given no information about what their findings were so we will never know what really happened.

Did not want to appear rude here, Kevin, just puzzled. No need to go defensive. I am not using smilies often, but believe I should have in this case.

My apology is on special offer if you ever need it.

I watched the thread from the beginning it is simply that first what came to my mind based on your story was – some petty criminal taking an opportunity, seeing your wife gone with kids and machine is still in the menu and pressing “withdraw cash” and then “£200” – perhaps the highest figure he/she can see. But then the card has to come out and criminal has to take it in order to get the cash next. Assuming he was nervous looking at the direction you wife has gone and did not notice another person nearby he drops the card (which he held in his hand as opposed to putting in the pocket), grabs cash and swiftly on his way. The other (puzzled) person hands the card to branch worker to be reported lost straight away. (Thus a new PIN) – You see this story hardly holds together. Unfortunately my brain is too lazy so instead of giving better explanations it simply generates doubt and lets things come clear themselves (Which, bizarrely, they always do). On the other hand – if the criminal saw and remembered PIN then what are the odds of him changing it there and then and giving the card in?

As to Halifax it was just a joke. I sincerely believe in nice bank workers, even met few of them.

I hope I did not spoil you thread, as it was not my intention at all.

Denys