For ATM users

**Angel Fae** · 07-01-2008 02:07 AM

Hi DV'ers, I haven't been here for quite some time now (and I really missed it

)

I recently got an email from a friend and thought of sharing this here. I know most of you already know about this cause it has been in circulation for the past days.

Here it goes:

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 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 and it states that it is seldom used because people don't know it exists.

I just want to ask your views, opinions, violent reactions on this.

**AmazeO XD** · 07-01-2008 02:11 AM

It might be bullshit.

**Kushna Mufeed** · 07-01-2008 02:24 AM

It sounds like an urban myth.

I'd like to test it, but if it's true I get in shit.

If I should ever need it, if it's false I piss off the robber.

**Clairity** · 07-01-2008 02:29 AM

I wish this was true.. but it's an urban legend:

http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp

**ChrissyMaria** · 07-01-2008 05:31 PM

I have a solution, make sure nobody is around when your getting money, and don't get money at 12 midnight in some store where nobody can see you...

I usually get my $$ during the day, or morning when people are around, I nearly refuse to goto an atm at night, im such a sissy i know.

**Clairity** · 07-01-2008 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by guerilla

II usually get my $$ during the day, or morning when people are around, I nearly refuse to goto an atm at night, im such a sissy i know.

Not at all. I do the same thing.. it's called playing it safe.

**ChrissyMaria** · 07-01-2008 05:41 PM

heh, well the main reason I'm afraid of being robbed is I can't defend myself if my life depended on it, I'm like one of those helpless girls being robbed at the atm, only im not a girl haha

I'd probally cry if held at gunpoint and not be able to even withdraw the money, and end up being shot probably.

**ThePhobiaViewed** · 07-01-2008 09:30 PM

Good luck trying to remember your pin # at all, let alone backwards, if you're being held at gunpoint.

Edit: I just noticed it discusses that in the snopes article

**one3rd** · 07-01-2008 10:14 PM

Yet another benifit of being in the military. My usual ATM is surrounded by fence, barbed wired and armed guards.

**ChrissyMaria** · 07-01-2008 10:18 PM

now if only my local atm had guards

**Mes Tarrant** · 07-01-2008 10:30 PM

This reminds me, I REALLY need to go purchase my own little can of pepper spray.

Someone almost hit me with his car earlier today and yelled at ME for it (I was crossing a pedestrian cross walk and was probably about half way across by the time the guy decided to try to hit me).

I wish I had a can then.

**AmazeO XD** · 07-01-2008 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by guerilla

now if only my local atm had guards

You sissy boy.

**ChrissyMaria** · 07-01-2008 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

This reminds me, I REALLY need to go purchase my own little can of pepper spray.

Someone almost hit me with his car earlier today and yelled at ME for it (I was crossing a pedestrian cross walk and was probably about half way across by the time the guy decided to try to hit me).

I wish I had a can then.

pepper spray? get a tazer

Originally Posted by AmazeO XD

You sissy boy.

**AmazeO XD** · 07-02-2008 05:18 AM

Originally Posted by guerilla

pepper spray? get a tazer

Eh, he could sue you for using a tazer, and for using pepperspray. Sometimes, spraying people in the face with mace isn't the smartest idea, no matter how moronic they are.

Remember, pepperspray is for self-defense, not "omg he yelled at me so I sprayed him."

**Replicon** · 07-02-2008 03:24 PM

http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp

first google link.

**ChrissyMaria** · 07-02-2008 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by AmazeO XD

Eh, he could sue you for using a tazer, and for using pepperspray. Sometimes, spraying people in the face with mace isn't the smartest idea, no matter how moronic they are.

Remember, pepperspray is for self-defense, not "omg he yelled at me so I sprayed him."

Yea I'm sure im going to get sued when being robbed at an atm and i taze someone,

im pretty sure the scum bag will goto jail and I won't get sued.

**AmazeO XD** · 07-02-2008 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by guerilla

Yea I'm sure im going to get sued when being robbed at an atm and i taze someone,

im pretty sure the scum bag will goto jail and I won't get sued.

I wasn't referring to if you got robbed at the ATM, I was referring to Mes Tarrant's shannanigans. You can't just spray someone in the face with pepper spray because they yelled at you. And unless she was walking across a crosswalk, at a red light, that would be jay-walking.. which probably murders any prosecution she'd try to come up with. I'm just saying, violence is not the answer... in some cases.