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- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!telecom-request
- From: jharuni@micrognosis.co.uk (Jonathan Haruni)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Good Opportunity For Fraud
- Message-ID: <telecom13.42.8@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:32:33 GMT
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 42, Message 8 of 14
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- In article <telecom13.33.11@eecs.nwu.edu>, rodg@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU
- (Rod Gamble) writes:
-
- > About two or three years ago the Bank of England (for some
- > reason or other) decided to find out what people used as words for
- > there PINs . Well guess what ... If you found a BoE card in the
- > street you had a 56% chance of using it in a ATM machine if you used a
- > four lettered word beginning with F*** ...
-
- I believe this is a myth. Most ATMs in the UK do not have letters on
- the keypads, only numbers. Furthermore, the Bank of England is not a
- consumer bank, and does not have branches, ATMs, ATM cards, or PINs.
-
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- Jonathan Haruni
-