What would you do if you went to the cash machine and

This happened to me last year Cinders. I was waiting behind to men who were getting very agitated with the machine and eventually left grumbling abut the fact that it hadn't given out the money that one of them expected. Anyway, when I got to the machine there was £50 sticking out. I took it and took my own money and then went down to the newsagent where I had seen them go to. I went in and asked the bloke that I had seen at the machine how much he thought that he'd lost. he looked at me a little quizzically but said "£50". I gave it to him. he thanked me and as he took his wallet out I saw that he was wearing a police officer's uniform under his coat. I was very pleased that I had been honest!!

We've heard about so many ATM scams. This would have scared me away completely. Please check with your bank to make sure you're not a victime of identity theft, please. If there's anything out of the ordinary, don't use that machine for anything!!! I guess you can tell, I went through all sorts of torture to straighten things out after my identity was stolen!

I would have been a little more quick at the draw and got the money lol! No but seriously, I would have left it alone. Most ATMs are designed to take the money back into the machine if someone leaves it there, and the money is put back into the account. You never know if that was someone's rent money, or their last in the world. I couldn't live with myself knowing that could be a possibility, so I would have let the money go back into the machine. But if it was on the ground I'd consider it fair game!!!

I don't think there's much that can be done since the machine sucked back in the cash anyways. I would have wanted the money and be hitting myself that I didn't grab it faster.

It has happened to me, and I had to chase the dear little man down the street to give it back to him. Bless he had left his money in it. I must have given him a fright and a half cos I had my little girl in a pram then and I went thundering along the high street after him!

its better to always keep a little bit of cash everytime with us so that if this kind of incident happens the cash with us helps n keep protected. n have to be prepared to this kind of incident its very bad that if this happens in some urgency n in needs

I've got one better. When I lived in Alb, NM. I went to an ATM. When I pulled up somebody had left their card in the machine, it said on the screen, "Do you want another transaction." I pushed the "No" button and out came their card. It was military and I called the number of their credit union, I didn't mess with their account but they should be thankful that I'm honest, anybody could have drained their account. I went back to that ATM about 2 weeks later and remarked, "I hope nobody left their card here again." Guess what, somebody did. It was the same situation, I don't know if somebody had stolen the card and couldn't get it to work so they left it or if somebody just forgot to get their card back. Either way, I had to call and mail it to their bank. Now everytime I go to an ATM I cringe to think that somebody has left their card.