ATM safety feature
By chansek
@chansek (130)
India
December 17, 2006 10:19pm CST
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 number in reverse
order. *
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.
2 responses
@onesiobhan (1327)
• Canada
18 Dec 06
I'm pretty sure that's an urban myth. But I'm going to call my bank and ask.