Accessing Dollars In Moscow

[Donald Loewen]

Yes, it's possible to get dollars at ATM's.  One thing to be aware of: just
last year there was a very well-oiled number-grabbing operation that seemed
to operate out of Moscow.  During our last year in Moscow (July '99 to June
2000) many of our Moscow-based European friends received unsolicited
notices from their home-country banks, advising them that their debit and
credit cards had been cancelled as a precaution and that they were being
issued new cards.  I personally knew three people who were affected.  The
actual source of the problem was never publicly identified, as far as I
recall.  There was a series of articles about the problem in _The Moscow
Times_ about a year ago; I don't know if it has been a problem
recently.  We had been relying on the ATM method until then, and switched
to something else after that.
Good luck,
Don
At 01:22 PM 5/17/01, you wrote:
>         I'll be in Moscow this summer and need to know if it is possible
>to access dollars at banks or ATM machines using either a Visa
>credit card or a Mastercard debit card.  I have heard that at one time it
>was possible to access both rubles and dollars at ATM's but I do not know
>if this is still the case.  I will be very grateful for this information.
>
>:> James E. Brown
>jebrown at hawaii.edu
>University of Hawaii
>
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