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April 11, 2012

Consumer Law

Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) and the Law

What fees are unreasonable?

Any bank that charges you a fee simply for the privilege of having an ATM card should be someone else's bank. There's no reason to pay, either annually or even once, for this service today; anything less than basic ATM privileges at the bank's own machines is simply not competitive.

>>How can you find out about ATM fees?
>>What fees are unreasonable?
>>What fees are reasonable?
>>Do you have a contract with your ATM issuer?
>>How can you safeguard yourself in making ATM deposits?
>>How can you make your ATM transactions secure?
>>How carefully should you guard your PIN?
>>Should you save the receipts of each transaction?
>>If you don’t save them, should you be careful of how you dispose transaction slips?
>>What happens when you leave your card in the ATM?


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