While everyone is focused on the HMRC accidentally misplacing CDs with the personal details of 25 million British citizens, I thought I’d relate the following little story. I was in a major bank on Hampstead High Street [*] today. While I was there, I overheard a staff member talking to another (the manager?) about a recent spate of thieves who put card readers on the ATMs (cashpoints). She had just discovered that one of the ATMs outside the branch had been tampered with again. I then had this conversation with the personal banker I was seeing:
Me: Would you take cash out of the teller machine outside?
Personal Banker: Me? No way.
Me: Where would you take cash out?
Personal Banker: I’d use the cashpoint inside the bank, but never outside.
Hmmm …
[*] For those that don’t know, Hampstead is one of the wealthier parts of London.
“Somewhere like Hampstead. Don’t know if you know Hampstead, but when people die there all their previous furniture flashes before their eyes” — Alexei Sayle
🙂 Aye, that’s the one.