1993-10-20 - Re: Photocopying money

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From: “Robert J. Woodhead” <trebor@foretune.co.jp>
To: catalyst@netcom.com (Scott Collins)
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Message ID: <9310200250.AA01843@dink.foretune.co.jp>
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UTC Datetime: 1993-10-20 02:52:38 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 19:52:38 PDT

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From: "Robert J. Woodhead" <trebor@foretune.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 19:52:38 PDT
To: catalyst@netcom.com (Scott Collins)
Subject: Re: Photocopying money
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Message-ID: <9310200250.AA01843@dink.foretune.co.jp>
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Scott writes:

>To my knowledge, vending machines don't do optical recognition. 

In Japan they do.  Some banks recently got scammed by people putting
photocopied Y10,000 ($100) bills into changers at the banks (getting
10 Y1,000 in return).  They've now done a ROM upgrade on the machines.

A cultural point: Japan is a very cash-oriented society, so nobody
blinked twice when someone went up to the changing machine and plunked
10 or 20 bills into it.

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• 1993-10-19 (Tue, 19 Oct 93 16:17:37 PDT) - Re: Photocopying money - catalyst@netcom.com (Scott Collins)
  • 1993-10-20 (Tue, 19 Oct 93 19:52:38 PDT) - Re: Photocopying money - “Robert J. Woodhead” <trebor@foretune.co.jp>
    • 1993-10-20 (Tue, 19 Oct 93 20:32:30 PDT) - Re: Photocopying money - Matthew J Ghio <mg5n+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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