While decent people’s bank accounts can get closed out of the blue because their personal accounts can become suspected of money-laundering activities even when there aren’t any suspicious transactions, anyone can place and operate cash machines. It requires no license or anything. Nobody even knows how many there are and where they are.

This is probably the weirdest thing that I’ve heard in my life.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2521798-hoog-witwasrisico-geldautomaten-door-gebrek-aan-toezicht

Supermarkets sometimes have one so that they don’t have to take the money from the cash registers to the bank. They save money that way. Others may have one because it increases footfall and thus turnover.

It may also help explain why it is so easy for some people to pretend that they are from the bank and know so many details about where people have their bank accounts. Just this morning, I read that one bank has a remarkably high percentage of successful fishing attempts and one case was mentioned in which the scammers knew that the clients had an account with which other bank. https://nos.nl/artikel/2521727-phishing-aanvallers-opvallend-succesvol-bij-bunq-veiligheid-geen-thema