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Nonsense email offers useless advice
A nonsense email is making the rounds claiming that entering your pin number in reverse at cash machines will alert the police to criminals.
The content of the email is usually similar to the following:
"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 number 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."
The Champ's advice is to delete the email and never follow the advice - if you enter your pin in reverse the cash machine will register this as an incorrect entry and ask you to re-enter your PIN.
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