Posted on: 28-06-09 14:30:54
Feel free to try and pass on
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
SECOND Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone.
Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to
drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'
THIRD Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.
FOURTH How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
ATM - 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 system 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 the location. This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it. Please pass this along to everyone.
This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends
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Originally posted by rajcanada
These email forwards! http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/business/a/cellphone_tips.htm
And this is for last rumor (ATM)
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_reverse_pin.htm
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Originally posted by sumjo
ATM - 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 system 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 the location. This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it. Please pass this along to everyone.
This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends
ATM - PIN Number Reversal -Nice joke!
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010SB1355
Introduced 2/10/2009, by Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
205 ILCS 616/50
Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act. Provides that a terminal operated in the State must (instead of may) be designed and programmed so that when a consumer enters his or her personal identification number in reverse order, the terminal automatically sends an alarm to the local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the terminal location. Deletes language providing that specified provisions shall not be construed to require an owner or operator of a terminal to design and program the terminal to accept a personal identification number in reverse order. Effective immediately.
LRB096 09056 MJR 19196 b
Short Description: ELECTRONIC FUNDS-DURESS PIN
Senate Sponsors
Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
Last Action
Date Chamber Action
3/13/2009 Senate Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
Statutes Amended In Order of Appearance
205 ILCS 616/50
Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act. Provides that a terminal operated in the State must (instead of may) be designed and programmed so that when a consumer enters his or her personal identification number in reverse order, the terminal automatically sends an alarm to the local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the terminal location. Deletes language providing that specified provisions shall not be construed to require an owner or operator of a terminal to design and program the terminal to accept a personal identification number in reverse order. Effective immediately.
Actions
Date Chamber Action
2/10/2009 Senate Filed with Secretary by Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins
2/10/2009 Senate First Reading
2/10/2009 Senate Referred to Assignments
2/18/2009 Senate Assigned to Financial Institutions
2/27/2009 Senate Postponed - Financial Institutions
3/11/2009 Senate Re-referred to Assignments
3/11/2009 Senate Re-assigned to Executive
3/13/2009 Senate Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments
Thanks tigercanada for sharing this info. It's online at http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1192&ChapAct=205%26nbsp%3BILCS%26nbsp%3B616%2F&ChapterID=20&ChapterName=FINANCIAL+REGULATION&ActName=Electronic+Fund+Transfer+Act. check (i).
what if pin is something like 1221 
Advising people to use a technology that doesn’t implemented is dangerous. A guy holding you up at an ATM isn’t going to be patient and now thanks to this email/post , people will try this, only irratating the robber which will result in not only theft but the possibility of physical violence as well.
if you are being forced to withdraw money from ATM you can enter your PIN number in reverse order that will inform police to take action?
This is actually a hoax. It is not at all true.
You can think of a situation when someones PIN number is a pallindrome e.g. 2332 or 5445.
The technology exists which would allow ATM users to contact police in an emergency by punching in their PIN (personal identification number) in reverse, but as of this writing it has not yet been implemented anywhere in the United States.
Lawmakers in the states of Kansas and Illinois introduced legislation calling for the institution of reverse-PIN emergency notification systems (also known under the brand name SafetyPIN) in 2004, but the Kansas bill stalled in committee and the Illinois bill was watered down at the behest of the banking industry, making the adoption of the technology purely voluntary — which it already was.
According to a story published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last year, bankers are opposed to the reverse-PIN system because of safety concerns. They worry that ATM users might hesitate or fumble while trying to enter their PINs backwards under duress, possibly increasing the chances of violence.
The inventor of SafetyPIN, Joseph Zingher, claims the banking industry is afraid to admit the growing extent of the crime of ATM robbery. Exact figures are hard to come by because ATM holdups are lumped in with other types of bank robbery in the FBI’s annual crime statistics. Of the 8,000 to 12,000 bank robberies per year counted by the FBI over the past 15 years, 3,000 to 4,000 (or just over one-third) were ATM robberies, according to the banking industry.
