Originally Posted by
Slybone
Oh I see, so the issue here is that he COULD tell the ATM ...
That's one possibility, but some Chase ATM's
scan and count the currency. The real issue seems to be running afoul of anti-money-laundering regulations that discourage currency transactions which do not have the same type of audit trail as checks.
As in many Flyertalk threads much of what you read is speculative. Not everything will make sense, because some of it is incorrect or based on different assumptions.