Crime at Automated Tellers / Be Safety Conscious When Using a Teller Machine

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Technology seems to bring out both the worst and the best in people. Computers have helped the handicapped learn to walk, but there are those who will always try to bend technology for their own ill-gotten gains. Bank automated teller machines, or ATMs, are a prime target.

Computers, the story goes, were sort of ``smart'' machines, and they could take the place of people in certain jobs. Like bank tellers. Who, the reasoning went, needed a human to count money? A computer-machine could do that, and do it cheaper than paying a teller's salary and providing benefits.

These same people, bankers by name, figured that eventually folks wouldn't need regular …