Will reversing PIN number at an ATM alert police that there is a problem at the ATM?
It is fiction if you think about it. Your pin number in reverse could be somebody else’s pin number the right way. My advice is if you have to use a ATM try and only carry one card, not a wallet full. Avoid unlit or ATMs in dark areas, better still get cash back in supermarkets. If you are being marched to a cash point by thugs, open your mouth and scream, make a scene, or pretend to be sick on them. Their immediate reaction is to back away.
The ATM Reverse-PIN Trick The most-forwarded Net rumor during the final months of 2006 purported to offer a tidbit of esoteric knowledge about the workings of ATMs, namely that there is a hidden safety feature whereby users can quietly alert police of an attempted robbery by entering their PIN (personal identification number) backwards. Let’s hope no one has tried it. The reverse-PIN system does exist on paper and its inventor claims it would reduce crime with widespread use, but the technology has yet to be implemented anywhere in the real world.
Sorry to say this is a load of codswallop. I know this for a fact. The only thing it might do if you try it 3 times is keep your card! Believe me the number of people who get their PIN numbers mixed up is horrendous, if every time they were back to front and the Police turned up they would be mighty pissed off.
