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Did you take some money from an ATM yesterday?(sun 25)

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Did you take some money from an ATM yesterday?(sun 25)

Unread postby eXpat » Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:36:44

Apparently there was an "exercise" yesterday that swiched off the banking system for 24 hrs in US and Europe:
Comments about this:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=141457.0
http://articlesofinterest-kelley.blogspot.com/2009/10/banks-and-october-surprise.html
So, is all tinfoil or did someone had the same experience?
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Re: Did you take some money from an ATM yesterday?(sun 25)

Unread postby davep » Mon 26 Oct 2009, 18:46:15

My wife did (in France) and it worked fine.
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Re: Did you take some money from an ATM yesterday?(sun 25)

Unread postby Jotapay » Mon 26 Oct 2009, 19:06:40

I got nothing. No one at TickerForum raised the red alert.
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Re: Did you take some money from an ATM yesterday?(sun 25)

Unread postby SchroedingersCat » Mon 26 Oct 2009, 22:26:30

This actually raised my hackles this weekend. Many major (and some smaller) banks and online trading sites in the US, Europe and Australia shut down Internet access to their services at the same time this weekend "for routine maintenance". A bit unlikely, to say the least. Sites that large run hot backups and can swap from one to another without going down for hours.


http://www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/a ... ost=113700

http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread ... post130208

http://www.ecu.com.au/index.php/about-u ... 20-october

http://articlesofinterest-kelley.blogsp ... prise.html
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