ATM In The Country Will No Longer Pay You If You Shield Your Face From Its Camera

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the Operation of Electronic Payment Channels has released a set of guidelines on how ATM should now be programmed to work, as part of security measures being put in place to strengthen ATM, POS and web transactions.

In one of the guidelines, it clearly mandated ATM operators across the country to program the ATM is such a way as to cancel transactions where individuals using the ATM shield their face from the hidden ATM’s camera.

Part of the guidelines in question reads as follows;

“Where the user of an ATM blocks his image for camera capture, the ATM shall be capable of aborting the transaction”

The guideline further stated that the camera should not be made to capture user’s keystrokes.

According to CBN, any erring institution(s) that fail to comply with the guidelines will receive serious sanctions.