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Re: Banking Follies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Tue Jan 16 18:34:06 2007
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:47:30 -0600
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
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I once got email from my bank (which has since merged and then been
merged into Chase) offering me some new service, and correctly
identifying me as an account holder. However, I had never given them
any email address! I called them about this and they said it was "a
computer error."
The error was cross-linking the Big Brother computer to the sales
promotion computer, I guess.
Now that they are Chase, I drove up to the ATM in the bank's drive-
through lanes and used it in the ordinary way and received, instead
of my receipt, a yards-long hex dump of the ATM's memory. That was
fun. I still have the souvenir, since the bank wasn't interested.
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