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Re: Photocopying money

To: [email protected] (Scott Collins)
Subject: Re: Photocopying money
From: "Robert J. Woodhead" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 11:50:54 JST
Cc: Matthew J Ghio <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected]
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 19 Oct 93 16:18:13 -0800. <[email protected]>

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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