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My question is, even with a max of $1000 per transaction, each ATM had to be hit more than twice per minute, for 30 minutes straight.

They must have choses extremely busy ATMs, or whoever got the scoop on this story got something wrong.

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We don't know what the limit was or even if there was one. I'm sure that's why payroll cards were picked for this particular scheme. I think people are too caught in thinking about how their cards work. The same rules that apply to credit/debit may not apply here.

I was also thinking that transaction limits could be per card per ATM, rather than per account per ATM. They could print out as many cards as they wanted to.

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