There was a message which ran something like this in our bulletin board.
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.
I thought it was a brilliant idea. Until I saw this awesome reply :-
I dont think so....
what if the PIN string is a palindrome
for ex: 1221
Hmm whatever...
1 comment:
You can change the pin to be a non-palindrome. But broadcasting the pin idea wasn't good anyway...
Instead 2 pins per a/c. One pin to withdraw cash, the other to inform police and withdraw cash.
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