I am not American.
I am not Mexican.
I am simply a dumb tourist.
I wanted to get 800 pesos which is like 40 dollars. I go to the atm, I don’t read anything because I’m in a hurry, I type 800.
And then the horror. I think I actually broke the machine. I ended up with fucking 800 American dollars. Cash was literally fucking flying because of course there was wind. At the end I got 680 dollars. If you are in Los Cabos and found 120 dollars in the street well you can thank me. Or maybe the machine just didn’t have that amount of cash I don’t know. I certainly miss 800 dollars on my bank account tho.
I have 680 American dollars, I have no fucking idea what I will do with it, I have a trauma of ATM now and I still can’t believe this actually happened. How it’s even possible that it happened
TL;DR: I fucked up, withdrawing 800 dollars because I didn’t notice it was an American dollar ATM and not a Mexican peso one
Edit: I know it sounds fake and it’s not really a proof but here, it’s a picture of the tragedy: https://i.postimg.cc/nccBWfvZ/IMG-4572.jpg
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Don’t get mugged.
Oh dios mio!
I’m not Mexican, I just like saying that when the opportunity arises… sorry for your loss.
How do you not know if $120 blew away or the machine didn’t give it to you?
https://preview.redd.it/po4ehamt7u1f1.jpeg?width=1007&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a08e1382933246da975095a549d341ab44fd4fd4
Sorry to hear, here in America the dispensed bills are held by the machine until you pry them out.
Keep an envelope with like $40 inside, and only that, keep it for police when they come around, maybe keep a couple of envelopes just like that, and don’t keep your cash in the wallet. When something comes up just give them one of those, if it doesn’t work do another and say that’s all you got.
I’ve never encountered an ATM that didn’t hold the cash securely because they have a mechanism to take the money back if it isn’t collected within a particular timeframe.
Hookers and cocaine, cause When in Rome..
Lol
Keep the money until you return to your country. Any major bank there will accept it for conversion to your local currency.
Maybe the money was lost because of the exchange rate of whatever currency you use?
Most likely ATM fees, I’m Mexican and I don’t remember seeing ATMs that give USD. I’m guessing that this happened near the USA border or in a touristic place like Cancun?
If such ATMs exist they are probably designed to scam tourists, they probably took a small “fee”of 120 USD.
Avoid shady ATMs and stick to the “big bank” ones (BBVA, Banamex, Santander, HSBC…), I guess that those will only give pesos and the fees will be less outrageous.
Always stand near an ATM and loudly say “Dammit, I got too much money!”
You are likely under the influence. Which is ok, but man put the money away.
Why do you think it’s a good idea to have it laid out on the table?
$800 is not a lot of money but will get snatched in almost any touristy place in the world.
$680 is not much money.
Not sure of the fees but western union or money gram might be able to wire the money to your bank. You might want to call your bank in your country and see if they have a suggestion.
Idk why this post annoyed me lol
The contents of the proof pic were the chef’s kiss.
Nearly all ATMs have a limit, have never heard of anyone taking our that much at once.
Something doesn’t make sense?
So I mean, losing 120 sucks but…. “I have no fucking idea what I will do with it.”
Maybe just…. Deposit it back? What am I missing?
Maybe the missing $120 is the ATM fee.
Modelo in a can…gotta do the ice cold bottles. Well i gotta do bottles, not that i ever get past a 6 pack anymore and usually 4 does me just right after a long ass day. Whatever though you had the right idea ,lol.
I pulled out 50,000 yen¥ once thinking it was 50$ USD. it was actually around 450$ USD.
Just stand there and make a deposit
You can just send the money to me I just literally got into a car accident and now idk what to do. Lol jk bud also I’m sorry for the loss.
There’s also more likely than not an exchange rate favoring the serving bank. It’s about 20 MXN to 1 USD, and about 25 MXN to 1 GBP, and 1.3 USD T to 1 GBP. So if your bank is in British, and the ATM is a Mexican back providing US currency, then you’re looking at two exchange rates plus your bank fee, plus any ATM fees.
I feel you!
I did something similar on my US taxes as an expat in Taiwan. Go ahead and look up the conversion rate to Taiwanese dollars and see the dollar signs that formed on Uncle Sam…
When traveling internationally, it’s cheaper to just pay with a credit card. Lots of cards have 0% foreign transaction fees, and banks buy currency in bulk, so the exchange rate on your card is always better than the spot/retail rate.