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

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Date:  Thu, 15 May 2008 02:49:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:  jacky bull
Subject:  PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)

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Hi guys,

Am quite a passive contributor in this forum but this surely caught my eyes because a workmate told me the same stuff 2 weeks ago. after investigating will all the banks we have in Kenya, through my useful banking leads,  it is clear that this cannot work in Kenya. Reason being, the special system/equipment that links banks to the police stations etc have not been installed yet by any bank in Kenya. Due to this technological lag, we can not use the pin reversal to alert the police for rescue.

 hope this sheds light on the issue

jacky!

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Date:  Thu, 15 May 2008 16:11:59 +0300
From:  Joanne Maina
Subject:  Re: PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)

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Dear Wanakazi!

This thing doesn’t work with the Kenyan ATMS not unless there are any that are linked to our police stations which the last time i checked don’t have computers installed and are still working on pieces of paper.

It’s a nice thing but it does not work, i tried it personally on a KCB and Equity ATMS lakini it shows u wrong pin entered.

Perhaps someone in the banking sector can enlighten us more on this

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Date:  Thu, 15 May 2008 16:36:19 +0300
From:  nick ngari
Subject:  Re: PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)

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Hi Jacky,

Kindly note that this is just a hoax email…..it cannot work anywhere as it is….some people have 0000 , 1111, 3333, 1001…etc….how do you type these ones backwards?

Have a hoax free afternoon

Amos

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Date:  Thu, 15 May 2008 16:04:33 +0300
From:  Amos Dickson Odero
Subject:  Re: PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)

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Hi Amos

I am not sure about this technology, but it will be something good to write home if it is available in our bank here in Kenya. But I totally disagree with Amon coz I dont thing there is anyone with pin numbers that have repetitive numbers as this one would break the computer password rules.

Lets move from speculation world and would like to hear from someone working in the backing sector or someone who has developed banking software.

Cheers guys

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Date:  Thu, 15 May 2008 17:28:49 +0300
From:  Jac
Subject:  Re: PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)

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Jack, 6336 is a perfect password…. completely nothing wrong with palindrome passwords.
 
But I like the whole concept of user and the system ‘playing’ a clueless thug… secondly, other than alert the police (who may not come even if you TALK to them), the system should only dispense limited amt on such a password and even give wrong balance!

jo

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Date:  Thu, 15 May 2008 15:36:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:  jude ogulla
Subject:  Re: PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (no password rules)