Reverse your ATM pin - when in trouble
By anonvenu
@anonvenu (401)
India
December 19, 2006 10:33am CST
Recently I received a e-mail:
"Should you ever be forced to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you. The broadcast stated that this method of calling the police is very seldom used because people don't know it exists and it might mean the
difference between life & death. Wanted to pass it along just in case you hadn't heard of it.
"IS this TRUE? Can this be TRUE???
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96 responses
@kellahinx (370)
• United States
19 Dec 06
It's not really true. One man invented a program to do this after his wife was killed because of a man who forced her to take money out of an ATM. However, the banks think it is too expensive and doesn't do any good, so they won't do it.
For the full story, you can go here:
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
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@kellahinx (370)
• United States
19 Dec 06
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
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@BittyBiddy (2903)
• Ireland
19 Dec 06
Kellahinx, that is true. I looked it up too when someone else told me about it.
@kellahinx (370)
• United States
19 Dec 06
I know. I feel sorry for the guy, but the banks do have a valid point. It might be just as dangerous to have a reverse pin if people were fumbling around trying to do their pin in reverse.
@feathers26 (865)
• Philippines
20 Dec 06
It is also my first time to hear it from you. But I would to thank you for that information,in case of emergency I can use it. I don't know hot true is this,and also another question,what country is it applied?
@SplitZip (1488)
• Portugal
19 Dec 06
No, it can't be true. How would the system know it was the reversed code and not someone trying to input an invalid code? (The code's probably encrypted in some manner in any case?) Never believe anything you read on an email. Trust your common sense and logic instead.
@soldenski (2503)
• United States
20 Dec 06
It would be great if it was true. But if it was true, you think the word would get out and even the criminal's will hear about it.
@gaurav_chaitanya (83)
• India
20 Dec 06
ya i also feel like the same it is not true becos its a computer based program and it accepts ur pin no for using ur account
and take simple thing if u have pin no abcd and after sometime u changed it to dcba
but u forgot u have changed it and u put abcd only so police will come their for just u put ur pin wrong they dont have work or wht
@itsjustmeb (1212)
• Canada
19 Dec 06
I don't think this is true. How would the police know if this is your reverse pin or not?
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@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
27 Dec 06
Thank you for this info. I believe it is true, as I read that a couple of times.
@clover779 (698)
• Portugal
19 Dec 06
That is not true.
I worked in that area, and specifically encrypting pins that cannot be discovered not even by the bank personnel, that is not true, if you enter the pin in reverse you will get a wrong pin message, and if you enter it 3 times in a row your card will get cancelled.
@imadriscoll (2228)
• United States
19 Dec 06
I don't think this is true, buy to be sure you could call your local police station along with your bank to find out if it is true. They should be able to tell you. Try not to believe everything you read in your email, any nut job can write an email and give advice to people. How sad that a person in trouble might actually try to use this and have a sense of false hope!
@Goranimal (315)
• United States
20 Dec 06
This is a complete falsehood, it does not work and never will. this is just another silly internet rumor like bill gates will send everyone 10.00 for emailing your friends.....DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@moneyfinder (6)
• Malaysia
20 Dec 06
good to see this discussion. finaly i know this thing is not true.
@harish_conqueror (28)
• India
20 Dec 06
probably,when we enter the pin inreverse by pressing # it may be possble to identify the casebut according to ATM it is proggamed to report an INVALID CODE,so there might not be any possibility
@tba123 (457)
• United States
21 Dec 06
this would be a nice feature. maybe something that could be done is 2 pins setup, 1 for withdrawing money and the other for if your ever in trouble like being robbed then you put that pin in and the police are notified. just thinking outloud
@zhizhong07 (674)
• Singapore
20 Dec 06
Have anyone actually try, or you will be caught if you anyhow key in this secret code.
@disvachic (10117)
• United States
20 Dec 06
I really dont believe that,i get phony emails all the time
@ganda11 (319)
• Philippines
20 Dec 06
I heard in the news that this is not true. The bank Official said that Its not true and its impossible, you cannot withdraw your money if you didn't enter a right pin # and they don't have this kind of system that will call or alarm the police if are being rob in the ATM machine both.
Just be careful when you are withdrawing your money and don't give your pin # to anyone.
@enivid2006 (535)
• Ukraine
20 Dec 06
Of course it is not true! How could that work for such PIN as 1111 or 9999?
