A computer-savvy con artist who reprogrammed a Norfolk, Va., ATM to dispense four times the amount of cash a customer requests is being hunted by police.

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Detective John Allen of the city's Economic Crime Unit told the Virginian-Pilot the thief programmed the machine at a gas station to think it was doling out $5 bills instead of $20 bills.

He used a virtually untraceable prepaid debit card, and then reset the machine back to normal.

He pulled the stunt a second time, police said, but something spooked him and he fled without resetting the machine back to normal.

While it was all caught on security videotape, police are tight-lipped about what happened, and didn't give a description of the thief.

However, police also have video of every customer who used the machine for nine days before anyone reported the malfunction, the newspaper said.