Patent ID: 8474708

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine operative to cause financial transfers responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records, wherein the machine includes at least one reader, wherein the at least one reader is operative to read user data usable to identify a financial account, wherein the machine includes a currency acceptor, wherein the currency acceptor is operative to receive at least one currency note provided by a user of the machine, wherein the machine is operable to carry out a currency accepting transaction involving a financial account for an authorized user of the machine, responsive at least in part to computer-determined correspondence between user data read by the at least one reader and the financial account, wherein the machine includes an imaging device, wherein the imaging device is operative to produce note image data which includes a serial number of a received note, wherein the machine is operative to obtain the serial number from the note image data, wherein the machine includes at least one data store, wherein the at least one data store includes suspect serial numbers, wherein the machine includes a validation arrangement, wherein the validation arrangement is operative to cause the serial number obtained from the note image data to be compared with the suspect serial numbers in the at least one data store, wherein the validation arrangement is operative to determine a received note as a suspect note based at least in part on the received note including at least one suspect note feature, wherein the at least one suspect note feature includes at least one of: a serial number suspect feature, wherein the serial number suspect feature is based on the serial number of the received note corresponding to a suspect serial number in the at least one data store, or at least one other suspect feature, wherein the at least one other suspect feature is not based on the serial number of the received note corresponding to a suspect serial number in the at least one data store, wherein the validation arrangement is operative to cause the serial number of a received note that includes the at least one other suspect feature, to be added to the at least one data store.