Possible cell phone text scam UL?

[MIB]

Text message to "hubby" on stolen cell phone nets purse snatcher a PIN number he uses to clean out a couple bank account.

Status is Undetermined

Rest of story here.

MIB

[amazing_ned]

I doubt it because banks do not like to make it easy for someone to withdraw all of their funds at once.

[thesilente]

Actually, i work at a bank...

We do make it difficult to withdraw all the money, unless: they know the pin

Pin verification is the say-all end-all at the bank, at least my bank, and my buddies in the same industry but other companies agree their banks go by the same ruels

[rbcp]

The article doesn't say how much "all of their money" was.  My bank lets me take $400 per day from the ATM.  That's $400 per day from each card I own.  Maybe these people didn't have a lot of money in the bank, so all of their money wasn't very much.  She could have had multiple cards too.  Like a separate savings and checking bank card, using the same pin numbers.