Ulterior

To say that they were doing this ‘on the quiet’ would be a gross understatement. It was a group of five. A single Project Manager and a team of four carefully selected and well-paid people, chosen for their individual skills. They each came from different trades and professional disciplines. Their combined purpose was to build a very special ATM. The aim was to build a machine that was designed to immediately identify a person presenting a card that was not their own. This particular automated teller machine, dubbed ATMX, after the name of the project, was being very well funded. It was quite remarkable that the financing of it could never be traced back to the banking industry, but there were suspicions. Probably, what is far more relevant is the fact that the group’s leader had suffered a great deal of trouble and personal inconvenience with regards to a banking transaction, using such a machine. As a result of this, he made sure that his ulterior motive remained hidden.

When the ATMX was completed, as arranged, it was fitted as a replacement for an existing machine. The location was carefully chosen because it saw a high volume of users. This was necessary because the special features that had been built into it would not be activated until somebody attempted to use a card not issued to them. It was reasonable to think that after the screened-off and overnight installation had been done, there could be a long wait to see the ATMX spring into action.

Meanwhile, the young man who lived in the area, had a job delivering groceries to elderly people. It was a charitable organisation that had hired him to make such deliveries to those not able to get out to do their own shopping. It was while dropping off one such item, that he saw and took the owner’s credit card.

After a week or two, the miscreant approached the machine. Looking around to make sure he wasn’t seen, he pushed the card in.

What happened next, took him completely by surprise. Inside the machine the card was cross cut shredded and tiny fragments of the card were sprayed out through the receipt slot. The camera flashed several times and a small nozzle, with a pilot light below its end, shot out from a hole above the screen. This was immediately followed by a voice, saying, “To avoid unnecessary pain, don’t move!” Finally, a loud alarm began to blare.

At the same time all this was happening, another alarm was set off in the local police station. As a consequence of this, a police constable was on the scene in less than two minutes. Arriving, he found the card user standing extremely still and at the same time completely petrified.

Although, in some respects, the project was deemed to be a success, the entire incident was made to go away by the quick removal of the ATMX and the replacement of the original. This was managed before the press got wind of it. It was generally considered to have been something of an overkill.

Those unseen originators of the project were disappointed.

They began working on another plan, this time ensuring a milder approach.

In a secret laboratory the small group of specialists worked on the machine.

To say that they were doing this ‘on the quiet’ would be a gross understatement. It was a group of five. A single Project Manager and a team of four carefully selected and well-paid people, chosen for their individual skills. They each came from different trades and professional disciplines. Their combined purpose was to build a very special ATM. The aim was to build a machine that was designed to immediately identify a person presenting a card that was not their own. This particular automated teller machine, dubbed ATMX, after the name of the project, was being very well funded. It was quite remarkable that the financing of it could never be traced back to the banking industry, but there were suspicions. Probably, what is far more relevant is the fact that the group’s leader had suffered a great deal of trouble and personal inconvenience with regards to a banking transaction, using such a machine. As a result of this, he made sure that his ulterior motive remained hidden.

When the ATMX was completed, as arranged, it was fitted as a replacement for an existing machine. The location was carefully chosen because it saw a high volume of users. This was necessary because the special features that had been built into it would not be activated until somebody attempted to use a card not issued to them. It was reasonable to think that after the screened-off and overnight installation had been done, there could be a long wait to see the ATMX spring into action.

Meanwhile, the young man who lived in the area, had a job delivering groceries to elderly people. It was a charitable organisation that had hired him to make such deliveries to those not able to get out to do their own shopping. It was while dropping off one such item, that he saw and took the owner’s credit card.

After a week or two, the miscreant approached the machine. Looking around to make sure he wasn’t seen, he pushed the card in.

What happened next, took him completely by surprise. Inside the machine the card was cross cut shredded and tiny fragments of the card were sprayed out through the receipt slot. The camera flashed several times and a small nozzle, with a pilot light below its end, shot out from a hole above the screen. This was immediately followed by a voice, saying, “To avoid unnecessary pain, don’t move!” Finally, a loud alarm began to blare.

At the same time all this was happening, another alarm was set off in the local police station. As a consequence of this, a police constable was on the scene in less than two minutes. Arriving, he found the card user standing extremely still and at the same time completely petrified.

Although, in some respects, the project was deemed to be a success, the entire incident was made to go away by the quick removal of the ATMX and the replacement of the original. This was managed before the press got wind of it. It was generally considered to have been something of an overkill.

Those unseen originators of the project were disappointed.

They began working on another plan, this time ensuring a milder approach.

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