By the way...THIS IS FALSE:
PIN NUMBER REVERSAL
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 broadcast on FOX TV and it states that it is seldom used because people don't know it exists.
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 broadcast on FOX TV and it states that it is seldom used because people don't know it exists.
posted by Meg Kelso | 3:38 PM
10 Comments:
Not true...
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
Hiya Meg! Ooh, you're going to be on TV ... (pity I don't get TV, and I'm not in the same country...) Ahh well, I'll have to settle for the SMODs!
Sorry to burst your bubble ... but that reverse PIN thing is not actually in use by banks ... according to Snopes at least. let's see if this link will work ... http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
Sorry! It just looked so much like an urban myth to me, I had to look it up...
Jean
What TV show did you hear that on? I had heard that from someone, but when I asked my bank manager they said they never heard of it.
Who would know more about this subject - a bank manager or someone who reads a teleprompter loaded by an intern who reads web rumors?
Also be very careful to cooperate, if a robber can't get money for any reason, then they may kill you. The night I was robbed, another person in the same police district didn't cooperate and was shot in the neck.
Everyone should know, if PIN reversal doesn't work, they could be killed by a robber too high on drugs and too pissed that he didn't get money to care about your life.
If no one knows it or it sounds too good to be true, maybe it isn't.
There are plenty of web rumors and urban legends.
If you do a Google search the top entry that comes up is a Snopes report that says this is FALSE.
When I was robbed I was almost killed because the bank would not dispense cash after dark in that neighborhood. The robber didn't care that it was the ATMs fault. Enter a wrong PIN code and you are dead.
So this piece of advice will get someone killed.
If you go to Snopes.com you can read about this...it is considered an "urban legend". A man tried to put this into use..but banks didn't want the bother of it..and authorities decided people at gunpoint would be too nervous to remember it backwards.
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
False...
You should know better meg..
John
No - it is seldom used, because it is NOT TRUE.
Snopes.com use it before spreading wrong information
Ain't that a bitch. I trusted it because a FRIEND of mine sent it to me. Thanks dude.
PS According to the myth, the crook does get your cash...the ony difference is the cops are called. Oops...my bad.
Hey, I'm days behind on my blog reading, but was gonna say exactly what these guys did. Always check snopes out before you believe anything that's sent to you!
I hadn't even heard of snopes before. As I said, I know the guy who sent it and he usually sends me good stuff so I assumed it was true although I did have a nagging doubt in the back of my mind that I should have listened to!
I shall vow to snope any new stuff I get!
:)
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