Janet Baraclough wrote:
Here's a much better tip for protecting your cards (and your bank
account) from theft by robbers. Just put your card in the machine and
enter the wrong PIN number three times.
There is no safer place to keep your card, than locked inside the bank
machine. Especially at weekends.


Janet.

LOL LOL LOL

l, not -l wrote:
On 30-May-2008, "Ophelia" wrote:

How do we know that Snopes is always right?

They're not; a FOX News broadcast, confirmed by CNN and documented
all over the internet has shown numerous errors Snopes has made.

Oh, wait; Snopes has debunked that rumor.

(removing tongue from cheek) ;-)

G

In article ,
Ophelia wrote:

How do we know that Snopes is always right?

They aren't; they have their biases. But they usually
give their sources, so you can check them out.

And, I've seen them change an article when they've been
wrong, or incomplete. (They semi-bought into that stupid
"The Attorney General thinks that calico cats are possessed
by Satan" rumor at first, but soon fixed the article.)

My search on "snopes wrong" pulled up nothing I'd call
evidence -- what I saw was blog ranting and crank sites.

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Mike Van Pelt wrote:
In article ,
Ophelia wrote:

How do we know that Snopes is always right?

They aren't; they have their biases. But they usually
give their sources, so you can check them out.

And, I've seen them change an article when they've been
wrong, or incomplete. (They semi-bought into that stupid
"The Attorney General thinks that calico cats are possessed
by Satan" rumor at first, but soon fixed the article.)

My search on "snopes wrong" pulled up nothing I'd call
evidence -- what I saw was blog ranting and crank sites.

Thanks Mike.

On Fri, 30 May 2008 18:47:42 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

Phideaux wrote:
"Kitchen Nitemare" wrote in message
...
Pin numbers in Reverse

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

Please pass this along to everyone possible.



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

Bzzzzzzzzzztttttttttt!!!

You lose! Take off all your clothes!

How do we know that Snopes is always right?


they most certainly do better than the people who spread these
crackpot stories.

your pal,
blake

On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:10:00 GMT, "l, not -l" wrote:


On 30-May-2008, "Ophelia" wrote:

How do we know that Snopes is always right?

They're not; a FOX News broadcast, confirmed by CNN and documented all over
the internet has shown numerous errors Snopes has made.

Oh, wait; Snopes has debunked that rumor.

(removing tongue from cheek) ;-)

i realize you're joking, but i'd say snopes is about a thousand times
more accurate than fox.

your pal,
blake

"blake murphy" schrieb :
On Fri, 30 May 2008 18:47:42 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

Phideaux wrote:
"Kitchen Nitemare" wrote in message
...
Pin numbers in Reverse

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

Please pass this along to everyone possible.



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

Bzzzzzzzzzztttttttttt!!!

You lose! Take off all your clothes!

How do we know that Snopes is always right?


they most certainly do better than the people who spread these
crackpot stories.


You just aren't paranoid enough ...
http://xkcd.com/250/ ;-)

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner