Patent ID: 8430305

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine including: at least one reader operable to read user data usable to identify a financial account, a user interface, at least one radiation output device adjacent the user interface, wherein the at least one radiation output device is operable to intermittently generate radiation, at least one radiation sensing device, wherein the at least one radiation sensing device is operable to sense radiation generated by the at least one radiation output device, wherein the at least one radiation sensing device is controllable to sense radiation only while the at least one radiation output device is generating radiation, at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the machine to take at least one predetermined action associated with detection of an unauthorized device adjacent the user interface, responsive at least in part to a positive determination that while the at least one radiation output device was generating radiation the at least one radiation sensing device sensed a level of radiation that exceeded a predetermined radiation level threshold.