Hoax: PIN NUMBER REVERSAL

My sister sent me the following email:

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

I checked with my Banks of Nova Scotia and RBC to see if this was correct and staff said yes this information is correct.

Please pass this along to everyone possible!!!


FP

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My brother's response:

That, and any other (Please forward this email ) type of message is simply false.

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

If you PIN is palindromic (eg.2332), it simply would not work.

Also by forwarding emails, you have essentially passed along *my email* address and many other emails to many other people.

I'm sure you didn't intend to, but spammers love these kind of things.
You would not want me to pass your contact information to all my friends, would you?

Sorry for being paranoid, but I work in mail.
(Please resist the urge to forward emails!)

LP

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