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Few ATM users have dreamed of a failure in the result of which the machine would mistakenly give them a round sum. how it recently became clear that such desires are quite real. Early morning in South Portland, Maine police called Thursday a woman who reported that a dubious-looking man holds too much time near the ATM and thus does not give her use the machine. “At one in the morning we arrived at the department the can, in the lobby of which the homeless man slept, and they took him from there. It turned out that he later returned to the ATM. About this to us said a woman who called at 5:30 in the morning and said that her delayed by a strange subject, “hovering” near the machine and, throughout constantly withdrawing cash, the lieutenant recalls. South Portland Police Department Todd Bernard. -This seemed suspicious to her, and she decided to call the police. Arriving at the bank for the second time, we found ourselves in the lobby earlier a man brought out from there. ” Having examined the bag of the homeless, the guards order amazed to find that it is filled with dollar banknotes. Police say that at the time of their arrival in the plastic bag was over $ 37,000. “When we asked him how he managed to take possession of a large sum money, the man said that he just wanted to remove the last 100 from the card dollars, ”Bernard told reporters. – But after receiving of this amount clicked on the “cash withdrawal” button and how he claims to have asked for another $ 700. ” According to homeless, the ATM “succumbed” to persuasion, handing him the specified amount. Before the arrival of the police, the homeless man, inspired by such luck, became owner of $ 37,000 by repeating a transaction of at least 53 times. “Bank representatives explained that the man took advantage cash withdrawal option, which is available for people who have issued a line of credit to a bank (obligation of a bank to issue to a client credit), says the lieutenant. – Currently, the bank’s specialists they took the machine out of service and try to figure out what the reason an error occurred while issuing money. ” According to Bangor Daily News, after a bag of money has been delivered law enforcement officers in the bank branch, his leadership refused indictment of the homeless and issued a statement according to which the error did not affect any client accounts.
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