Automated banking machine with noncontact reading of card data

A method comprising:

• (a) operating at least one computer to generate a verification code,
• wherein the at least one computer is operable to generate different verification codes,
• wherein the at least one computer is in operative connection with an image reader operable to read respective images while the respective images are located outside of an automated transaction machine;
• (b) operating the at least one computer to determine that at least one image read from a location outside of the machine by the image reader, includes code data that corresponds to the verification code generated in (a);
• and
• (c) operating the at least one computer responsive at least in part to the determination in (b), to allow a transaction involving a customer account number that corresponds to account data included in the at least one image, to proceed at the machine.

A method comprising:

• (a) operating at least one computer to determine from an encrypted image read by an image reader of an automated transaction machine, an input code which was previously generated by the at least one computer for customer use in providing a customer account number to the machine,
• (b) operating the at least one computer to use a decryption code that corresponds to the input code determined in (a) to further determine from the encrypted image, the customer account number;
• and
• (c) operating the at least one computer to allow to proceed at the machine, a transaction that involves the customer account number determined in (b).