ATM Pin Numbers

[pavman]

PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)

 

Apparently

 

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.

[JohnGalway]

A thief would never get my pin number as I can never remember the bloody thing :unsure:

[magman]

thank,s for the heads up pav

[pin]

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_reverse_pin.htm

[Bradders]

A test of this might prove interesting.....

[OldBill]

Yep, it's a myth.

[pin]

To add a little more to it, it is something being considered at the moment. Mind, we always seem very backward in adopting anti-fraud practices, chip'n'pin for instance was rolled out and working in Holland in 1999, we didn't get it for nearly 6 years after.

 

I don't understand why, we have extremely high rates of card fraud and associated crime..

[darebear]

one reason it was sooooooooo obviously an urban myth.... what if its the same forwards as it is backwards hmmmm?

 

and I've been called blonde?

 

[MC]

Darebear,

 

Is yours 1111 or 2222? :unsure:

 

That would be fitting for a blonde.

[darebear]

666 and another for good measure.

[MC]

Now that I can believe :unsure:

 

As Highlander said "cute fluffy bunnikins my A**E"

[darebear]

awww come on guys,

 

the compliments are going to my head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-rolls eyes again-

[hawkeye]

awww come on guys,

 

the compliments are going to my head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-rolls eyes again-

 

 

 

Quit it guys thats big enough as it is :unsure:

[Paul223]

??what would happen if your number is 2332 :unsure:

[darebear]

??what would happen if your number is 2332 :unsure:

 

 

ummmmm

[Catamong]

Credit card skimming is now quite common - It happened to me and they skimmed nearly 2 grand out of my account in cash withdrawals, the best advice I can give is never let your card out of your sight, if you do that, it cannot be skimmed.

 

I was refunded my losses in full, I was 99.9% certain I knew where and when it happened and offered to help them go to the police to make a case, but they weren't interested and no action was taken.

 

The credit card companies make so much money out of people who pay them monthly interest they can afford to take a relaxed attitude towards fraud.

 

Sad, isn't it..??

 

Cat

[pin]

I think the plod and the banks want fraud to continue so they can investigate and take down the whole organisation in one go, only reason I think they allow it to continue.

[lurcherboy]

Credit card skimming is now quite common - It happened to me and they skimmed nearly 2 grand out of my account in cash withdrawals, the best advice I can give is never let your card out of your sight, if you do that, it cannot be skimmed.

 

I was refunded my losses in full, I was 99.9% certain I knew where and when it happened and offered to help them go to the police to make a case, but they weren't interested and no action was taken.

 

The credit card companies make so much money out of people who pay them monthly interest they can afford to take a relaxed attitude towards fraud.

 

Sad, isn't it..??

 

Cat

 

You don't have to let it out of your sight to get skanked Catamong. The rottie used a shop in Canterbury last christmas and thought the girl taking the card swipe was more helpfull than usual, she was and we got skinned for nearly 3k.

 

We had platinum account so all was sorted in 5 days but when we chased up the bank they said they would not be pursuing the theft as it was not cost effective

 

Most people would say so what let them pay for it, but they don't, we do in increased bank charges and its ******* annoying.

 

 

 

 

LB

[Catamong]

I think it's tragic the way that the law in this country are now making Herculean efforts to ensnare the generally law abiding public who may just be doing 34mph at 5am in a 30mph limit, whilst ignoring the criminal fraternity that skim millions through credit card fraud.

 

No wonder so many decent folk are fed up with this country and are leaving in droves..!!

 

Cat.

[Gully]

I got a call from an online betting company the other day asking if I'd opened an account. I said no and they told me that someone had, in my name. We went through a long "how do I know you are who you say you are" - "well how do I know who you are" etc but I finally got the credit card details they'd used. It was an account that I haven't used since May and the card has been locked in a safe in my house since then. How did they get my details? Some dodgy person at a mail/internet order company? I don't get it. They'd opened about 4 different accounts and hit me for about £500.

[pin]

Statement you have thrown away, previously skimmed details, receipt (some still have the full number), telephoto lens camera when you used it last, card reader in a cash machine...

 

Loads of ways. In fact it makes sense to collect details, especially when the card itself has not been stolen, and use them much later. They have the expiry date...