@malwaretech some boomer who microwaved their iphone trying to charge it finally gets their revenge

@malwaretech we really have failed in our job of educating the youth, haven't we?

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@malwaretech I've seen several stories about it and can't figure out if this is real or if this is a bunch of kids trolling the olds (like the tide pods, huffing urine, and countless other stories)

@malwaretech the only "ATM" hack I ever knew about or used was when I was living in Lismore (a country town) and they had one ATM that would run maintenance tasks at 1am. You could withdraw as much as you wanted, but you'd end up in negative balance the next day.

Needless to say, 1am, main street, lots of drinking... yeh, a few times I was $100 overdrawn 😆

@malwaretech Merely souvenir checks, you understand

@malwaretech lol. And I was just reminded that I'm not missing much by not being on tiktok

@malwaretech I'm kinda outta the loop on this one, were they straight up writing checks to themselves or were they taking someones checkbook? both are fraudulent ofc but the ladder being more far more sinister and almost obviously fraudulent behavior lmao.

@malwaretech omg ... We need some sort of "life skills" class on school. I had 5 years of law classes in middle and highschool, best thing ever! (Though I am a chemist)

@malwaretech Apparently, my own children (who DO understand the consequences of cheque fraud) are going to rule the world.

@malwaretech I smell tide pods.

@malwaretech Stay in school children

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Please, no one make a TikTok of Russian roulette.

@malwaretech European here. US ATMs do cheques?!

@malwaretech some are probably including the routing and account numbers, not that there's likely much in an account doing this.

Edit JHFC autocorrect

@malwaretech Be young and dumb. Do crime.

@malwaretech It's always hahaha until the FBI shows up.

@malwaretech life hack commit crimes

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These gen z kids are fucked. On a related note, who the hell even writes paper checks anymore???

@malwaretech You have to wonder whether "some of the money becomes available for withdrawal" is actually the money that's already in there before the check deposit.

@malwaretech when I worked in banking in Oz in the 80s and 90s certainly didn’t work that way

I notice our atms now will scan the cheque and do OCR for the details but still the same 4 days to clear

@malwaretech Bankers hate this one simple trick.

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Weird. Checks, or Eurocheques, as they were called, went out of use in 2002 over here. The only reminder of their existence is old Germans calling their Girocard (German equivalent of a debit card) EC-Card, which is confusing because the Electronic Cash trademark or EC is owned by Mastercard for their local debit system, which, incidentally is on the way to being replaced.
Electronic payment being a fickle beast, in no way lessens the sheer idiocy of doing this.

@malwaretech A lot of people in the pokey for hanging paper.

@malwaretech FAFO is going to be really harsh. Bank fraud!

@malwaretech As an European I find it hilarious that some places on this planet are still using them, where as in Finland they'd become so rare by early 1990s or byt the time the Berlin Wall fell, I had never seen one in real life (traveller's cheques somehow don't count) and I am 41 now.

@malwaretech neither of my zillennials use checks. checks just don't exist for their generation. and my oldest is in his late 20s. this has to be a massive troll.

@malwaretech Step 1 Deposit check to ATM

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Step 1 Write a check...

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Step 1 Order checks...

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Step 1 Google "what is a check"

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https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/chase-bank-says-aware-viral-glitch-inviting-people-commit-check-fraud-rcna169339

Chase bank has a statement about it. Sounds like it was an ATM glitch, but was patched pretty quickly. Dunno.

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Canadian banks all use the Interac system to transfer funds. Cheques are super rare, but there are times when it may be easier, or even required.

@malwaretech Pretty sure I did an empty envelope deposit once when I was poor and ATMs took envelopes.

@malwaretech kids know how to write checks??

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All those poor bank workers who have to process all that.