PIN REVERSAL
#1
PIN REVERSAL
Someone just sent me the following information. Don't know if it is true, and hope no one ever has to use it
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 moneyyou requested, but unknown to
the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.
This information was recently broadcast on CTV and it states that it
is seldom used because people don't know it exists.
I checked with my Bank of Nova Scotia to see if this was correct and
staff said yes this information is correct.
Please pass this along to everyone possible
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 moneyyou requested, but unknown to
the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.
This information was recently broadcast on CTV and it states that it
is seldom used because people don't know it exists.
I checked with my Bank of Nova Scotia to see if this was correct and
staff said yes this information is correct.
Please pass this along to everyone possible
#2
Re: PIN REVERSAL
Someone just sent me the following information. Don't know if it is true, and hope no one ever has to use it
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 moneyyou requested, but unknown to
the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.
This information was recently broadcast on CTV and it states that it
is seldom used because people don't know it exists.
I checked with my Bank of Nova Scotia to see if this was correct and
staff said yes this information is correct.
Please pass this along to everyone possible
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 moneyyou requested, but unknown to
the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.
This information was recently broadcast on CTV and it states that it
is seldom used because people don't know it exists.
I checked with my Bank of Nova Scotia to see if this was correct and
staff said yes this information is correct.
Please pass this along to everyone possible
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
Last edited by Elaine B.; Oct 29th 2008 at 5:13 pm. Reason: added link
#4
Re: PIN REVERSAL
That ones been going around for ages unfortunately it's rubbish.
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
#9
Joined: Jan 2006
Location: South Fredericton NB
Posts: 294
Re: PIN REVERSAL
its a bit worrying that the OP's bank confirmed the story?
#10
Re: PIN REVERSAL
I think that 'confirmation' is just a variation in the story that gets around.
Whenever these myths get passed on there's often someone who says "Hey, that happened to a friend of mine...except it was a man and not a woman who......"
Whenever these myths get passed on there's often someone who says "Hey, that happened to a friend of mine...except it was a man and not a woman who......"
#12
Re: PIN REVERSAL
One of my faves is this one.......
Immediately after Neil Armstrong uttered his famous "That's one small step for man ..." quote during the historic first moon landing, he added the cryptic phrase, "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!" Not until over twenty-five years later did Armstrong reveal that Mr. Gorsky was a former neighbor, whose wife had proclaimed that she would give him oral sex "when the kid next door walks on the moon."
Immediately after Neil Armstrong uttered his famous "That's one small step for man ..." quote during the historic first moon landing, he added the cryptic phrase, "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!" Not until over twenty-five years later did Armstrong reveal that Mr. Gorsky was a former neighbor, whose wife had proclaimed that she would give him oral sex "when the kid next door walks on the moon."
#13
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Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 26,319
Re: PIN REVERSAL
My view is that if something looks that good or that easy, it can't be true. Plus the only information an ATM machine sends to your bank is your account number and your PIN. The bank only checks that the two match before checking anything else.
#14
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Joined: Aug 2007
Location: North
Posts: 1,357
Re: PIN REVERSAL
Also if it was true, what if your number was a palindrome?