ATM Skimmer

[Seanny]

Detailed Description

An ATM Skimmer which takes a certain amount of money everytime someone uses a specific ATM.

 

For the unaware, an ATM skimmer is a device which reads your card and/or keylogs your pin when using an ATM, very much illegal.

 

 

A way to balance this and not make it overpowered could be to add an automatic /ame above a players head when they place or take a skimming device from an ATM. Another balancing act could be removing the skimming device after so many ATM uses automatically. I'm not really sure how this can be balanced for civilans/LEO's otherwise. As for LEO's combating skimmers, I've not been able to find resources on those online so idk.

 

EDIT: The main idea is to automate the part where money is given, so that the player does not need to rely solely on IFM for receiving their money and that money is actually taken from victims bank accounts (say 5% with a 10k upper limit at a time, or smth).

 

Relevant Commands/Items

/putskimmer for people who have an "ATM Skimmer" in their inventory & /takeskimmer to take said skimmer from the ATM. If you don't own the skimmer, you'll need to /checkskimmer first

/checkskimmer to check an ATM for a skimmer.

 

IFM admins need to vet whoever wants a skimming device, or place restrictive limits on them and if they approve of a skimming device, will need to use the admin give item command to give the skimmer, to avoid every ATM in the server being skimmed

 

How will it benefit the server?

This will give illegal groups/factions another way of earning money passively and it will allow the transferring of money from other players banks to illegal groups.

Edited May 21, 2022 by Seanny

[bigtaco]

this is already a thing

Edited May 20, 2022 by bigtaco

[Storm]

already a thing big dog.

[Resick]

this is a thing but you need IFM's approval and it should stay that way

[Seanny]

22 hours ago, bigtaco said:

this is already a thing

To my understanding though, you still need IFM to deposit the money into the character that put the skimmer in, my suggestion basically automates money part.

[Junx]

15 minutes ago, Seanny said:

To my understanding though, you still need IFM to deposit the money into the character that put the skimmer in, my suggestion basically automates money part.

 

And thats far too abusable. I can go and put an ATM skimmer on the ATM outside rockford casino and probably earn half a million in one night.

[bigtaco]

2 hours ago, Seanny said:

To my understanding though, you still need IFM to deposit the money into the character that put the skimmer in, my suggestion basically automates money part.

you dont automatically get money into your bank account after you use an atm skimmer you still have to go through some extra steps 

[marbella mondays]

9 hours ago, bigtaco said:

you dont automatically get money into your bank account after you use an atm skimmer you still have to go through some extra steps 

Including manually removing it off said ATM first, it's how cops catch some scammers because they'll leave the skimmer in place n wait.