Email regarding PIN numbers

Tom_vRS · 01-12-2006, 15:02

Received this this morning

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toms Email

IN 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
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.
Please pass this along to everyone possible.

Sounds like pish to me, any truth in it?

TKW · 01-12-2006, 15:05

Duress PINs are well used at a certain organization I used to work for (you swiped your card at the door and entered your pin + 1 if someone had a gun to your back

) ... but not for bank ATMs in the UK.

Edit +ATM +"duress pin" - Google Search looks like the idea has been thought about in the 'States though.

postmanpat · 01-12-2006, 15:06

try it and find out

hth

Dr Zoidberg · 01-12-2006, 15:07

You really need to ask?

If so then there's a dead nigerian that left all his money to you.

Just give me the £10000 fee to be able to collect it.

Goochie · 01-12-2006, 15:09

Whats funny is that people may believe the police would actually bother/be able to turn up everytime someone did that.

**mannyo** · 01-12-2006, 15:10

That last comment.

Quote:

Please pass this along to everyone possible

says to me that this is a hoax email designed to clog up email systems.

**robmawer** · 01-12-2006, 15:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom_vRS

Sounds like pish to me, any truth in it?

What about if your PIN is 4554? The police are going to accuse you of crying wolf sooner or later...

Rob.

Tom_vRS · 01-12-2006, 17:25

I know its tosh, but to be circulated as an official email by my employer...

thegavsters · 01-12-2006, 18:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom_vRS

I know its tosh, but to be circulated as an official email by my employer...

If your employer is going to do that then they are an ar$e

Manguish · 01-12-2006, 18:41

snopes.com agrees it's ****.

LJ_Matt · 01-12-2006, 22:08

Yet another junk email doing the rounds then!
I get loads of financial, viagra and various other emails sent to one of my old accounts (sometimes 100 per day

), the most frequent is the barclays which is funny as I've never dealt with them

.
The only time I got scared and had to ring an ex MI5 computer expert mate of mine for some advice was when one of the barclays ones asked me to confirm my name and address which were filled in correctly on the email - I definately shat bricks for a few mins (And I'm pretty clued up on pc's too

) until we worked out that as I had used that address for subscribing to some, ahem, slightly questionable sites in the past (not recently, really!) that the bar stewards had either harvested my info or sold it on.
I ignored it and thankfully I've had no more with the "personal touch"

have appeared since.

Basic rule of thumb is if it turns up by email and warns of some dire consequence of not acting or pass it on to everyone then its a big pile of the steamy smelly stuff

.

Also I did try some email tracker software a while back to trace the junk spammers and it went all over the world only to stop at a US military server

, there's some very clever people out there with too much time on their hands...................

Snoopie · 02-12-2006, 02:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tom_vRS

I know its tosh, but to be circulated as an official email by my employer...

Sack him!

01-12-2006, 15:05	#2
TKW Briskodian Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 968 Members Car: Thanks: 11 Thanked 14 Times in 14 Posts	Re: Email regarding PIN numbers Duress PINs are well used at a certain organization I used to work for (you swiped your card at the door and entered your pin + 1 if someone had a gun to your back ) ... but not for bank ATMs in the UK. Edit +ATM +"duress pin" - Google Search looks like the idea has been thought about in the 'States though. __________________ Octavia 4x4 Last edited by TKW; 01-12-2006 at 15:08.

01-12-2006, 15:07	#4
Dr Zoidberg Briskodian Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: On the back of an AA truck with a failed turbo Posts: 10,745 Members Car: Octavia II 2.0 TDi Elegance Thanks: 30 Thanked 194 Times in 145 Posts	Re: Email regarding PIN numbers You really need to ask? If so then there's a dead nigerian that left all his money to you. Just give me the £10000 fee to be able to collect it. __________________ Alex "I laugh in the face of danger, then I hide until it goes away" www.drzoidberg.co.uk

01-12-2006, 15:09	#5
Goochie Briskodian Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Up a tree. Posts: 12,363 Members Car: Thanks: 7 Thanked 27 Times in 25 Posts	Re: Email regarding PIN numbers Whats funny is that people may believe the police would actually bother/be able to turn up everytime someone did that.

01-12-2006, 17:25	#8
Tom_vRS Briskodaholic Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Fenland, Cambridgeshire Posts: 11,542 Members Car: '97R BMW 328i Saloon Thanks: 679 Thanked 433 Times in 310 Posts	Re: Email regarding PIN numbers I know its tosh, but to be circulated as an official email by my employer... __________________ 97/R BMW 328i in Boston Green.

01-12-2006, 18:41	#10
Manguish Briskodian Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Newcastle Posts: 925 Members Car: Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Email regarding PIN numbers snopes.com agrees it's ****. __________________

01-12-2006, 22:08	#11
LJ_Matt Light Jockey! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Somerset, UK Posts: 671 Members Car: Skoda Octavia vRS Mk1 Thanks: 2 Thanked 10 Times in 10 Posts	Re: Email regarding PIN numbers Yet another junk email doing the rounds then! I get loads of financial, viagra and various other emails sent to one of my old accounts (sometimes 100 per day ), the most frequent is the barclays which is funny as I've never dealt with them . The only time I got scared and had to ring an ex MI5 computer expert mate of mine for some advice was when one of the barclays ones asked me to confirm my name and address which were filled in correctly on the email - I definately shat bricks for a few mins (And I'm pretty clued up on pc's too ) until we worked out that as I had used that address for subscribing to some, ahem, slightly questionable sites in the past (not recently, really!) that the bar stewards had either harvested my info or sold it on. I ignored it and thankfully I've had no more with the "personal touch" have appeared since. Basic rule of thumb is if it turns up by email and warns of some dire consequence of not acting or pass it on to everyone then its a big pile of the steamy smelly stuff . Also I did try some email tracker software a while back to trace the junk spammers and it went all over the world only to stop at a US military server , there's some very clever people out there with too much time on their hands................... __________________ Regards, Matt ________________________________________________ Assumption is the mother of all foul ups Now proud owner of a Kawasaki ER-6F too!

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