"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