THE haul from recent ATM scams in Melbourne has reached $1 million and is expected to climb, police say.

The amount stolen from ANZ customers had risen to more than $670,000 yesterday and a bank spokeswoman predicted this would grow.

Five men faced the Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday accused of running a scam at an ANZ automatic teller in Elizabeth Street that led the bank to cancel credit and debit cards of 2000 customers.

Nicolae Mateica, 33, Aurelian Ion Stancu, 34, Marian Fieraru, 24, Dorel Musat, 23, and Ionut Nedea, 26, were charged with obtaining property by deception between March 15 and 25. They allegedly fleeced accounts by using cards cloned by skimming machines at ATMs.

Nedea is also charged with possessing a skimming device to produce fraudulent cards.