Originally Posted by
silverthief2
Any card would need to be tapped twice in order to get value added (once upon approaching the machine and again after adding the $), so I don't see how her funds could end up on the card of the person that used the machine before her.
That said, I hope your friend got her $5 back because that's clearly not supposed to happen.
I thought the story seemed farfetched but I wanted to share it just in case. As it turned out, the WMATA employee had four bucks and change on a paper card and gave my friend that so it almost worked out.