Is this true or just another Urban Myth?
ATM - PIN Number Reversal - Good to Know
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 system 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 the location. This information was recently
broadcasted on CTV by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't
know about it
Started: 14th Jul 2008 at 14:12
It's news to me.......
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 14:28
Not heard that one before.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 14:29
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=324664
Myth just checked on here
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 14:34
Not very clever telling everyone your pin number dostaf!
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 14:36
Hey I'm not that blimmin daft, I reversed it.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 14:37
Oh that makes it ok then
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 14:39
But don't broadcast it.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 14:41
Last edited by dostaf: 14th Jul 2008 at 14:41:48
dostaf
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 14:45
Good idea that when you get your card
they should send a letter with it telling everyone what to do
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:13
It can not possibly work, as like dostaf said if you have a number which is the same backwards as is forwards then its not going to register. Although I know dostaf(fatsod) was joking about it.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:28
How long did it take you to figure(fatsod) out spook.
We thought it not polite to mention it!
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:30
Last edited by xrh59: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:31:57
Spook,
If this were feasable then the banks would not send out PIN numbers that read the same back to front. Neither would they let you change your PIN number to read back to front.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:30
Ecky le peck, me covers blown as well as me bank details. Me bedsheets got blown too, but that were cabbage water.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:31
It only took me a mere moment, but seeing as we were on the subject of Back to Front I thought I would add it!!
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:33
dostaf.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:34
All that time at GCHQ, and for what. Rumbled by a Spook.
And for those who have never been rumbled by a spook..............
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:38
I thought you change a pin to what you want
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:42
Not a pleasant feeling being rumbled by a spook is it?
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:44
Probably no worse than being rattled by the ghoulies.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:48
That sounds a little more painful on the face of it.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:49
NJ,
You can at the moment but if it were stopped it would just flash up number not acceptable with an explanation why.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:50
When facing your demons they don't always look you in the eye.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 16:51
When facing your demons,a couple of drops of liquid viagra in your eyes are needed......
it makes you look harder!
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 17:02
Tried doing that once. Was blinking all week long.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 17:04
I tried it with the cream,couldn't get the bloody top back on the tube me fingers wus that stiff.
Replied: 14th Jul 2008 at 17:11
Everard?
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 13:43
Last edited by joseph 1: 30th Jul 2010 at 13:44:37
That's what Pop-it-in Pete told the magistrate.
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 13:55
Being rattled by the Ghoulies is nothing compared to having Poltergeist put the Whillies up you.
No homophobic jokes please.
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 14:03
I've had a look for Postwomen on bikes.
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 14:04
What are whillies, Copperhead?
Was John Brown one?
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 14:06
I prefer a milk woman on cold mornings
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 14:08
I don't think she had a name.
Google time.
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 14:12
I had a look for Postwomen on bikes.
A good balance with mail, too.
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 14:12
Last edited by jo anne: 30th Jul 2010 at 14:16:05
Bloody hell dustaf I give you an extra letter for nowt and still you complain.
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 14:18
Helen Fraser was a postwoman in Rising Damp.
Curiously, she wore GPO badge with NE on it (Newcastle).
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 14:18
"Bloody hell dustaf I give you an extra letter for nowt and still you complain."
See 13:55
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 14:20
"Is this true or just another Urban Myth?"
Yes.
No.
Replied: 30th Jul 2010 at 20:50
Evenin Mache.
Helen Fraser also appeared in another RD episode.
One where Rigsby was meeting a lady via a lonely hearts column at 'The George' pub.
Lady in question was actually Miss Jones, but a newlywed bride (Fraser) and her husband got caught up in it.
Roy (Alec Gilroy) Barraclough was the barman.
Replied: 8th Oct 2013 at 20:43
Last edited by dustaf: 8th Oct 2013 at 20:44:31
Pink Carnations
Apologies for tandem.
Replied: 8th Oct 2013 at 20:45
I tried it once, the machine ate my card and I spent the weekend sleeping in doorways, living on biscuits. I found it's also an urban myth that beggars make 300 quid a day, although I didn't have a blanket and a mangy dog
Replied: 9th Oct 2013 at 06:43