How To Keep Safe At A Cash Point

How can I keep safe at a cash point?

Well, there's two things actually to look out for here. One is around the actual machine itself. Is it a potential that the machine has been tampered with? Although, it is actually quite rare, there are instances where people will try and attempt to put some form of scanning device actually onto the machine and will try to scan details of your card from there. So, you just need to be conscious and aware of the machine that you're using. If there's any - if it feels like trying to put the card in - it's quite tight, then don't use the machine, walk away and report it to your bank. The secondary thing is obviously around your own personal safety at cash point machines. It's actually reasonably rare to become a victim of crime vis-a-vis by a cash point machine - but sensible precautions around seeing who else is there - is there someone reasonably near to the cash point who just seems to be looking at people using the machine? If you've got concerns around that, then don't use the cash point machine, just walk away. And, a good place to actually get cash is in sort of well-populated, well-lit areas. So, a particularly good place, for example, would actually be within the branch of a bank itself, use the security doors to go into the branch which is covered by CCTV cameras, and take your money from there. And the important thing is, having got your money, is to actually keep it out of sight as quickly as you can, so that when you walk away from the ATM, people aren't then aware that you've got significant amounts of cash on you.