On 09/01/2012 23:59, Martin Rich wrote:

"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in message
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Roland Perry wrote:


Midland/HSBC were quite big on them back in the 1990s - it was one of
the reasons I took my first child account with them. They were
originally ATM card accessible but following cases of fake machines
designed to capture card details being placed on doors in the mid
2000s they moved over to a completely open-access, press a button
model. Then they found the lobbies were becoming unsafe and nasty - I
wonder why - and so moved to phase them out altogether.


My local HSBC had a lobby which was removed and replaced with outside
ATMs a year or two back. I didn't know abut the fake machines outside
lobbies although I have heard of similar scams to capture card details.
Incidentally most HSBC branches still have ATMs inside and in my
experience tend to be laid out to dissuade customers from joining a
queue and dealing with a human

Martin
Much more prefer to just do it yourself, rather than deal with a nasty
human.