You seem to be a little worried at the moment about the prevalence of criminals using card skimmers at ATM’s (automated teller machines) attempting to steal your clients money. Your are reporting this on the news and emailing out lists of “things to look for” when using ATM’s. You are greatly concerned about the whole situation.

I am sorry, I am a tad confused old chap. You are the ones who made us start using these machines in the first place with your “save you money” sales spiel. You preferred us to use the machine then come in and talk face to face with a person thus losing any control over who was accessing your machines. Then you started charging us for the privilege of getting our money out of one of these machines.

And now you have the audacity to tell us that we need to protect ourselves from these criminals. We need to be vigilant and check for signs that the ATM we are about to use has not been tampered with. We need to look out for cameras, changes to the fascia, holes in the walls or top of the machine, people hanging around and whether you can see the LED’s around the card entry point (if there are no LED’s its bad apparently).

You bunch of dim witted morons, you are the ones who need to protect your machines. How on earth can you idiots expect your customer to wear this crap. We give you our money to hold and protect it, in turn you invest it and earn a return (most of the time) from the money you hold. You used to pay us interest to lend you money but now you don’t. Now you charge us a fee to put money in, a fee to take money out and a fee to check how much money we have in our account. Even if we want the ‘privilege’ of earning interest you force us to move our money from one account to the other and charge us for these transactions also.

I look forward to getting skimmed. I will be suing you for failing to perform the very thing you were created to achieve in the first place PROTECT MY MONEY!!!!!!