Have you ever stood at a cash machine and received a friendly tap on the shoulder to alert you to a discarded £20 note on the ground?
If so, then shortly afterwards - after you crouched to pick it up - you probably noticed that your card and perhaps the cash you were withdrawing had disappeared.
Some £33m was lost to cash-machine fraud in the UK in 2010.
Although the figure has been falling in recent years, the industry is still trying to find ways of reducing it further.
As part of this, 13 students were commissioned to come up with designs to make ATM use safer.
Not all of their ideas will make it into production, but some - which have been exhibited at Central St Martins College in London - do raise some interesting views on how consumers can be safer when they take out their cash.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13798386
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