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Title: is this true?
Post by: beast5680 on September 08, 2007, 22:14:46

got sent this statement in an email

ATM PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)
If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM
machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse.
For example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. The ATM
recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in
the machine.

The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the
robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.
 
This information was recently broadcasted on TV and it states that it is
seldom used because people don't know it exists.

Please pass this along to everyone possible.


is this actually true or is it just a spam mail :?

Title: is this true?
Post by: Thrasher on September 08, 2007, 22:16:43

Bollards.

There's nothing to stop you having a pin of 1111 or 1001 or something like that. Same forward as it is backwards.

Coppers would be run off feet  :roll:

Title: is this true?
Post by: thermidorthelobster on September 08, 2007, 22:20:38

Sorry, it's an urban myth, (http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp) put together by somebody who gets a kick out of seeing people forwarding their odd message around the world.

If in any doubt with these things, google on (for example) "urban myth pin reverse" and you'll find out the truth.

Title: is this true?
Post by: beast5680 on September 08, 2007, 22:25:47

ah i suspected as much :lol:

Title: is this true?
Post by: Lord Shagg-Pyle on September 08, 2007, 22:46:15

I've never heard of that. Sounds like a load of bull to me. :?

Title: is this true?
Post by: wrecker on September 08, 2007, 22:56:13

so come on then, :shock:  :lol:

whos going to be the first to try it and see what happonds :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

mark

Title: is this true?
Post by: Lord Shagg-Pyle on September 08, 2007, 22:58:13

Not me buddy, I ain't going to look stoopid!

Title: is this true?
Post by: wrecker on September 08, 2007, 23:01:53

:lol:  :lol:

Title: is this true?
Post by: dazzawhipple on September 09, 2007, 07:52:54

Quote from: "Thrasher"

Bollards.

There's nothing to stop you having a pin of 1111 or 1001 or something like that. Same forward as it is backwards.

Coppers would be run off feet  :roll:

Damm better change my pin :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: is this true?
Post by: Lozza on September 09, 2007, 10:52:58

Quote from: "wrecker"

so come on then, :shock:  :lol:

whos going to be the first to try it and see what happonds :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

mark

Basically, the machine will keep your card if you enter the wrong number.

It sounds like an excellent idea - however - computers - while being excellent - are not human - and the functions needed for an operation like this would be endless - I could just imagine all the false alarms at the police station.

Title: is this true?
Post by: hobbit on September 09, 2007, 12:27:06

A good variation on that, would be if you could have a 2nd pin number that you could give the robber, so the system could work to do what the myth says

Title: is this true?
Post by: thermidorthelobster on September 09, 2007, 12:31:28

Quote from: "Lozza"

Basically, the machine will keep your card if you enter the wrong number.

Only on the 3rd attempt, so you could actually try this out without losing your card, but it's pointless because it's not true anyway.