Idiots Who Tried TikTok’s Viral ‘Free Money Glitch’ at ATMs Are Getting Reported for Fraud (gizmodo.com)

submitted 3 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It turns out some lifehacks can come with prison time.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 9 points 3 months ago

If you need an account with Chase, doesn't that mean they were just withdrawing their own money? On top of that they are now going to jail for fraud.

[-] subtext@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

From what I understand they were basically doing check kiting

[-] Githyanki 5 points 3 months ago

I did this by accident once when using mobile deposit of a check and missing the decimal point while typing in the amount. I was not dumb enough to think it was free money and spend it. The bank fixed it two days later.

load more comments (2 replies)

this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024

51 points (96.4% liked)

Pulse of Truth

464 readers

60 users here now

Cyber Security news and links to cyber security stories that could make you go hmmm. The content is exactly as it is consumed through RSS feeds and wont be edited (except for the occasional encoding errors).

This community is automagically fed by an instance of Dittybopper.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

krogoth@infosec.pub