Downsunder Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Just received this in an email. Has anyone heard of this or tried it? Sounds a bit far fetched to me. 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 system 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 the location. All ATM’s carry this emergency sequencer by law. This information was recently broadcast on by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harestone Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Just received this in an email. Has anyone heard of this or tried it? Sounds a bit far fetched to me. 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 system 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 the location. All ATM’s carry this emergency sequencer by law. This information was recently broadcast on by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it. It's a myth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteMorris Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Probably the fact that it's refered to as an 'ATM' machine tells you it's originated from America, and is almost certainly complete nonsense! Almost nobody here used that term. It's a 'cash machine', or hole in the wall, or whatever!...never an ATM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyofborg Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 try it and see what happens..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikki-red Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Its a hoax. Theres examples on Snopes from as far back as 2006 http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp Edit...sorry harestone, I didn't see your post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slh73 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 fake. Think about it. What if your PIN was, for example, 1221. The machine would never know if you were entering it forwards or backwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InigoMontoya Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Probably the fact that it's refered to as an 'ATM' machine tells you it's originated from America, and is almost certainly complete nonsense! Almost nobody here used that term. It's a 'cash machine', or hole in the wall, or whatever!...never an ATM Some of us superannuated old fogeys still call them " Cashpoints"… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skippy Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 We here in Oz call them ATM's or ready tellers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Whilst we are on the subject of PINs, nearly 11% of people use 1234 as their PIN! Over a quarter of people use the top 20 PINs. Article here. More detailed analysis (and the source for the other article) here. If your PIN is in the top 20, you should change it as soon as you can. If it uses any of the patterns shown in the detailed analysis (dates, repeated pairs, etc.) you should change it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howden Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Just received this in an email. Has anyone heard of this or tried it? Sounds a bit far fetched to me. 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 system 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 the location. All ATM’s carry this emergency sequencer by law. This information was recently broadcast on by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it. You need a spam filter on your email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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