I got this email recently from a relative--is it true or just an urban myth?
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.
2006-12-03 07:41:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
log onto www.truthorfiction.com and you will find this answer:
The Truth:
The eRumor is FALSE because there isn't anywhere that we could find where this emergency procedure at ATM machines is actually being used.
There is a seed of truth to it, however, in that the idea has been floating around for a while. One of the biggest proponents has been in Illinois attorney named Joseph Zingher. He says the notion came to him when he was a law student at the University of Illinois and one evening was withdrawing money from an ATM in a scary part of town. He patented his concept in 1998 and has been trying to talk banks into using it ever since.
2006-12-03 07:50:02 · answer #1 · answered by Eddie M. 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Atm Pin Number Reversal
2016-10-06 06:36:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not ever heard the sort of thing. Your pal is mendacity to you. The pleasant way to avoid robbers is certainly not to make use of an ATM computing device at night exceptionally if the financial institution is in a dismal area. There are some pin numbers is the equal as reverse and forwards like 2332. How can that preclude robbers?
2016-08-10 00:12:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true.... think about it... you got a gun stuck in your face by some drug crazed dude and you have to enter your pin# backwards? You'd be doing good to enter it correctly at all...
2006-12-03 07:53:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
no its not true it's just an urban myth i know this because i tried this shortly after reading and nothing happened nothing at all and it doesnt give you your money either
2006-12-03 07:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by OllY 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Utter crap. Try it and it will inform you that the wrong pin number has been entered.
2006-12-03 07:46:34 · answer #6 · answered by old_man_blanco 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like a myth to me. What if you had dyslexia and did that by mistake.
2006-12-03 07:50:27 · answer #7 · answered by Wendi lu who 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It exists on some machines, but not many. the idea has been around, but nobody's really taken action on it yet.
Don't count on it working.
2006-12-03 07:56:14 · answer #8 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wish this were true. Why don't they implement that at ATM's?
2006-12-03 07:49:07 · answer #9 · answered by beez 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
can you give me pin coad i forget my pin coad
2014-01-06 02:19:31 · answer #10 · answered by M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋