Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Pre-emptive hoax strike: entering PIN # backwards does NOT get you the police

The following is a new hoax that's going around:

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I just found out that should you ever be forced to withdraw monies from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse. The machine will still give you the monies you requested, but unkown to the robber, etc, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.

The broadcast stated that this method of calling the police is very seldom used because people don't know it exist, and it might mean the difference between life and death. Hopefully, none of you will have to use this, but I wanted to pass it along just in case you hadn't heard of it. Please pass it along to everyone
possible.
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Like I said, it's a fairly new hoax, but it's a hoax none the less...see http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp . Thank you for being responsible and not passing on the hoax to others.

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