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Post by BlackJack TS-18 on Sept 21, 2007 16:39:18 GMT 7
I dont know how true it is, but it makes sense. Maybe someone in TS or SG can try to key in the pin number in reverse, see really will alert the police or not. ;D -------------------------------------------------------------- ATM PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)
Do your bit for crime prevention. Pass this on to your friends and relatives...
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 Number 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 broadcast on TV with the statement that it is seldom used because people don't know it exists.
Please pass this along t! o everyone possible.
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Post by Mok-SG 04(Camera man) on Sept 21, 2007 16:41:26 GMT 7
thanks for letting me know.. i post it to another forum now...
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Post by BlackJack TS-18 on Sept 21, 2007 16:49:10 GMT 7
thanks for letting me know.. i post it to another forum now... before u copy and paste and send to other forum, pls pay me the copyright money 1st.
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Post by Mok-SG 04(Camera man) on Sept 21, 2007 17:04:05 GMT 7
before u copy and paste and send to other forum, pls pay me the copyright money 1st. oh.. ok... then i dun copy n paste...
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Post by raymond SG-11 on Sept 21, 2007 21:32:08 GMT 7
jack.. u really give us a good info.. will inform this to all my fren.. but no copy n paste!kekeke
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Post by Mok-SG 04(Camera man) on Sept 21, 2007 23:20:04 GMT 7
Jack, some1 responded me in other forum said that :
Comments: False, for now. The technology exists which would allow ATM users to contact police in an emergency by punching in their PIN (personal identification number) in reverse, but as of this writing it has not yet been implemented anywhere in the United States.
Lawmakers in the states of Kansas and Illinois introduced legislation calling for the institution of reverse-PIN emergency notification systems (also known under the brand name SafetyPIN) in 2004, but the Kansas bill stalled in committee and the Illinois bill was watered down at the behest of the banking industry, making the adoption of the technology purely voluntary -- which it already was.
According to a story published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last year, bankers are opposed to the reverse-PIN system because of safety concerns. They worry that ATM users might hesitate or fumble while trying to enter their PINs backwards under duress, possibly increasing the chances of violence. The banking industry is in favor of finding a means to protect ATM customers, a member of the American Bankers Association said, but question whether the reverse-PIN solution is the right one.
Inventor of PIN number reversal system says banks 'in denial'
The inventor of SafetyPIN, Joseph Zingher, claims the banking industry is afraid to admit the growing extent of the crime of ATM robbery. Exact figures are hard to come by because ATM holdups are lumped in with other types of bank robbery in the FBI's annual crime statistics. Of the 8,000 to 12,000 bank robberies per year counted by the FBI over the past 15 years, 3,000 to 4,000 (or just over one-third) were ATM robberies, according to the banking industry. Some crime experts suspect the figure is actually higher.
Bankers, for their part, insist they do acknowledge the problem of ATM crime and recommend that customers exercise due caution and be aware of their surroundings when using automated teller machines.
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Post by sweesum @ TS-04(ERT) on Sept 24, 2007 21:06:10 GMT 7
OoOoo.. nice info
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