The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 23, June 5, 2005, Article 6

THIEF OUTWITS CHANGE MACHINES

A thief in Wellsburg, West Virgina uses a novel tool - a small
white card that impersonates a dollar bill and fools change
machines into accepting it as real.

"Although he's only stealing quarters, police say this isn't any
"two-bit" crime. It's a felony case of fraud.

The new ownership at the Twin Palms car wash in Wellsburg
had a problem.... 560 quarters were missing from
their change machine. They installed security cameras and
struck paydirt.

Surveillance tape shows a man using what police are calling
"an access device" to confuse the machine into giving him
quarter after quarter after quarter; 200 dollars total.

"It looks like a small white card of some kind," says
Wellsburg Police Sergeant Lester Skinner. "He's sliding it
into the bill acceptor and producing change at the bottom"

Timecode on the surveillance tape shows the man spent six
minutes getting change..."

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[At two hundred dollars for six minutes, this guy is getting
rich faster than my lawyer. Has anyone heard of this scam
before? -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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