is it ture that if you're robbed at an atm store and if u put your pin number backwards the police will come?

Question

i just got an email about that and i was wondering if ti's true. it said that if you put your pin number backwards (ie if your pin is 1234 and u put 4321), then it will still give you the money, but it is a silent alarm go get the police. the email said that they said this in the news. anyone else heard about it or got it in their email? is it ture?

Answer 1

No.

here's the scoop:

http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp

Answer 2

no it that was true then the police would have come to the ATM i was at about once a week because i forgot the pin to a card on my account in someone else name, i knew the numbers but would forget the order and put it in backwards a few times, the best thing to do if you are getting robbed is to move away form the camera so it can see the person any weapons and all the cars around

Answer 3

I work for a national bank and putting your pin number in backwards at the ATM does not alert the police. It will only cause the machine to keep the card if you put in the wrong pin number enough times.

Answer 4

That's a pretty lame rumor. What if your PIN is a palindrome or even all the same number? Why would an ATM give you money for the wrong PIN number?

Don't believe anything you read in chainletter emails. Oh, and Yahoo! is not going to charge people money to keep your username due to SN scarcity.

Answer 5

Not unless your bank has started it, but it is not a national code

Answer 6

if that was the case i'd be setting off their alarms regularly

Answer 7

You could look it up on Snopes, but I'm sure it's not true.

Answer 8

It is not true... just a dumb fake email

Answer 9

What if your PIN was 1881? :)

Answer 10

I've never herd about that