atm card interesting fact!!
By pandya
@pandya (334)
India
December 24, 2006 11:17am CST
this is a true piece of information about ur automated teller machine(atm) card...
say for example if someone tries 2 take u as a hostage and withdraw money from ur card wat u must do is type in the 4 digit pin u have in the reverse order ie if it is 1234 type in 4321 in this case u can still access ur account but unknown 2 the robber this reversing notifies the nearest branch of the bank and also the nearest police station...in this way u can get the robber caught b4 u get out of the bank!!
now even if u ppl have any other security info related 2 credit or debit card pls share!!
2 responses
@thinkingoutloud (6127)
• Canada
24 Dec 06
Hey pandya :) I just wanted to tell you that this information has been circulating on a lot of websites lately and it's not actually true. It's more of an urban legend, based on something that was developed back in the 90's but didn't really gain success as a security system. If you'd like to read more about it, you can read this article at snopes.com.... it explains a lot :) Hope this helps!
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
