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Hi all,
This happened about two years ago and I'm sorry I didn't take it to the media at the time but I'd be interested to know if it has happened to anybody else.
I took money out of an ATM in Tallaght, €100 or €120 if I recall correctly. Anyway, there were two fifty euro notes with it and that's what i still had when I went to pay for a pint and a couple of cokes for the kids that evening, the girl in the pub told me that it was a dud €50...I was mortified and quiclky (whilst getting a serious redner) produced the second €50 note to which she replied....that's dodgy too....I explained that I'd got them out of an ATM a couple of hours earlier and proceeded to pay the eight or nine euro by credit card.
Next morning I approached the AIB branch with the ATM in question. They took the two notes off me to check them. About ten minutes later they came back and told me that their head security people for ATM's said this was not possible.....When I told them that these two fifties CATEGORICALLY came from the ATM I was informed that I better be careful as that was accusing AIB of fraud. They 'confiscated' the two notes but not before I got them to make photocopies of both of them. I then went to the Gardai and reported AIB and re-told my story and asked them to document it.
I then involved my own bank (the Ulster Bank around the corner) to make representation on my behlaf to ensure AIB understood that I was 'of good character'. Eventually the AIB made a lodgement of €100 into my UB A/C....No notification of same, no explanation, no apology ! Writing this I can't believe I didn't push them significantly further on this !! I now find myself with 100k to invest and AIB will be getting diddly squat of my business....
Has this ever happened to anyone else....?
r2d2
This happened about two years ago and I'm sorry I didn't take it to the media at the time but I'd be interested to know if it has happened to anybody else.
I took money out of an ATM in Tallaght, €100 or €120 if I recall correctly. Anyway, there were two fifty euro notes with it and that's what i still had when I went to pay for a pint and a couple of cokes for the kids that evening, the girl in the pub told me that it was a dud €50...I was mortified and quiclky (whilst getting a serious redner) produced the second €50 note to which she replied....that's dodgy too....I explained that I'd got them out of an ATM a couple of hours earlier and proceeded to pay the eight or nine euro by credit card.
Next morning I approached the AIB branch with the ATM in question. They took the two notes off me to check them. About ten minutes later they came back and told me that their head security people for ATM's said this was not possible.....When I told them that these two fifties CATEGORICALLY came from the ATM I was informed that I better be careful as that was accusing AIB of fraud. They 'confiscated' the two notes but not before I got them to make photocopies of both of them. I then went to the Gardai and reported AIB and re-told my story and asked them to document it.
I then involved my own bank (the Ulster Bank around the corner) to make representation on my behlaf to ensure AIB understood that I was 'of good character'. Eventually the AIB made a lodgement of €100 into my UB A/C....No notification of same, no explanation, no apology ! Writing this I can't believe I didn't push them significantly further on this !! I now find myself with 100k to invest and AIB will be getting diddly squat of my business....
Has this ever happened to anyone else....?
r2d2