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What happens when ATM Machine pays double of what you ask
Mar 20 2008, Giorgio

Once the word was out, there was no stopping them. Within minutes of one lucky customer finding out that the cash machine at his local supermarket was giving out double the requested withdrawal, the news spread like wildfire.

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