Banks: "Our ATM security is international standard' - oops, we left the keys in the lock

 

Image: Daily News

 

KOH SAMUI:-- In a week when the banks were climbing over themselves to reassure customers of their top notch security measures in the wake of million baht hacking thefts, comes the ultimate hoot.

 

Staff who filled up an ATM in Koh Samui left the keys in the machine and went home.

 

The keys were found dangling in the front of the machine by a Facebook user who promptly shared his experience online with a few million other Thais. 

 

"Anusit Chaidet" posting on a Samui fan page said: "I used an ATM today in Chaweng Sai Nai at a PTT gas station. The keys were in the machine. What if a thief was passing? Is my money safe? It's worrying".

 

Some posters online thought it might have been deliberate for checking a signal but most thought staff had just forgotten the keys by mistake after leaving in a hurry.

 

Reporters later discovered that three bank staff had been at the ATM and had indeed left the keys there by mistake.

 

Banks such as SCB, who have purple ATMs, and Krung Thai have reassured customers this week of their state-of-the-art security after an eastern European gang robbed the Government Savings Bank of 12 million baht by introducing malware onto their system.

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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More important things on there mind!

4 minutes ago, clockman said:

More important things on there mind!

Maybe Pokemon 

 

International thieves and scammers standard, gold standards... and this this is

why this country is overrun with credit cards skimmers that Thai jails are

full of them, right?......

I bet they're still working there next week.

You pay peanuts, you get what?

ATM security is low and each time I use one I am suer care here. I have had two bank cards skimmed in Thailand at ATM machines. Never in any other country. That is not a coincidence.

They have to BAN the internet in Thailand soon for defemation 

Thai Time Thai Smile Thai Ness Oh I Love Thai

2 minutes ago, jimstar1 said:

Thai Time Thai Smile Thai Ness Oh I Love Thai

 

I love the avatar bro!     a new island to the West?

thailands banking systems and ATMs are up to international safety standards because they are copied from or provided by international companies. some things come down to human error such as phone companies giving out sim cards to the wrong people without checking who they are and people not being careful with access keys. human error happens every where but it seems to be more common and more disastrous over here.

"key is under the mat love".

Even Barney Fife would know better.

Thais will never do that. It's the Burmese staff, who left it there.

Wow  it must be embarrassing to be the guys who forgot the

keys.  At Koh Samui yet, well I hope for better quality at

Hua Hin and other places.

Geezer

2 hours ago, Caps said:

Maybe Pokemon 

or where to get the next Somtam???

The machines are of international standard I would agree but the software and verification systems are not

ATM up to international standards,Thai workers have no standards

Does anyone know if international customers are protected in Thailand?  In the USA ATM skimmers are the responsibility of the bank.  If you account is skimmed you get your money back.  What about here?  I have not opened a Thai bank account as I didn't want to get the letter from the embassy that Bangkok Bank required.  I thought I would just about break even on paying my bank fees in the USA.  I do wonder what my bank would say if large large withdraws were made from a Thai ATM and I told them...,"oh the thai bank employees left the keys in the ATM and ...."

52 minutes ago, Tonawatchee said:

Even Barney Fife would know better.

Gomer might

1 hour ago, jimstar1 said:

Thai Time Thai Smile Thai Ness Oh I Love Thai

 

Ha Ha - Kiwis bragging about their size again ! 

the wife was late for the pick up

Yeah. The worst I've seen was one of the guys changing the money cases at the local mini Tesco going inside to grab a bottle of water - while leaving both the new and empty stainless steel cases lying next to the opened ATM. A robbery waiting to happen.

This is why the bad guys come in.

An ATM somewhere in Bangkok. Yes, that's the controlling PC and, yes, that's the electricity supply. And, yes, Thais were happily withdrawing as I photographed.

3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

You pay peanuts, you get what?

Shells?

That's what you would like us to believe, it is not what is seems however.

 

An ATM doesn't use an external PC to operate, the ATM itself is a data terminal that is connected to a network by some means. Whatever that device is it's separate from the operation of the ATM.

18 minutes ago, Runamile said:

An ATM somewhere in Bangkok. Yes, that's the controlling PC and, yes, that's the electricity supply. And, yes, Thais were happily withdrawing as I photographed.

I saw a computer sitting on top of an ATM.  It was inside a bank though.  

Yet, while my wife was with a bank employee, no one seemed to care that I was poking at the computer!

I still wonder how they know that it was an eastern European gang that hacked the ATMs... Is it just a wild guess? Or aren't the Thai capable of hacking ATMs?

 

I still haven't seen pictures of these culprits on Thailand's most wanted... (uh, I mean facebook)

Some ATM machines come with an external cat-scan.