ATM's

Sidney,

I hate to say it buddy, but first you are wrong about China and now you are completely wrong about this ATM pin number bullshit. What you are claiming is complete bullshit and will not work, plain and simple. I went to snopes.com, found the article about this scam, and it says point blank that the entire thing is a bullshit internet rumor!

Here is the link to the article on snopeshttp:/www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp.

Better Luck Next Time,

Rock Harders

Sidney,

No worries, I'm just pissed off that the Yankees are getting blown on on opening day, and their $200 million dollar pitcher looks like a washed up fat slob on the mound today.

Suerte,

Rock Harders

Sidney,

Is this the same source that recommended to buy GM stock?

I'm down $80K.

[QUOTE=Sidney]Per card injection.[/QUOTE]Could be that the limit on withdrawals is temporary due to the anticipation of a possible bank strike in the next few days.

[QUOTE=Sidney]The recent tragedy of a young woman being kidnapped and eventually killed after she had repeatedly given the kidnapper a wrong Pin to her ATM card. If she knew the method below, she could have been aved. So I think it is important enough to let you know. Here you go.

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. You can go on snopes to verify.

Please pass this information on.[/QUOTE]So what happens if you use a Palindromic number? (¨capicua ¨ in Latin)

TL

This is a hoax. Snopes marks it as such.

[url]http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp[/url]

[QUOTE=Sidney]The recent tragedy of a young woman being kidnapped and eventually killed after she had repeatedly given the kidnapper a wrong Pin to her ATM card. If she knew the method below, she could have been aved. So I think it is important enough to let you know. Here you go.

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. You can go on snopes to verify.

Please pass this information on.[/QUOTE]

I guess if you're convinced that the police alert really works and you think it's a good idea then it's best to change your PIN to a non-palindromic number. I wonder if this system works in Europe.

This is an urban legend. It's not true!

[QUOTE=Amantelondres]I guess if you're convinced that the police alert really works and you think it's a good idea then it's best to change your PIN to a non-palindromic number. I wonder if this system works in Europe.[/QUOTE]Also, if you continue to use a palindromic number you need to realize that there are very few combinations and that anybody can fiqure out your pin number!

TL

On this past Saturday, I was trying to get cash out of the Citibank on Callao, but it gave me 'over the limit' sign for even as low as 400 pesos. Hmmm.

So walked around and went to HSBC. Same thing:(

I went to 2 other local banks. No luck. I didnt have enough cash even for a privado trip:(

Came back to apartment on Callao (Jackson's) and dialed my bank back home.

They reported no issues with the account.

Then I logged on and RTFF and found this post below about the 'larger' ATM machine Citibank giving out more cash.

So I went back and tried the larger ATM. Low and behold, there was cash:)

The local banks may give 300-360 pesos (I later learned) At this "larger" ATM machine in Citibank, you can get at least 1000 pesos at a time.

Well done mogers!

[QUOTE=Bartonsky]Just was in BA for about 11 days. It was my experience that the best ATM to use are the Citi ATM's with the large digital screens. Even within the same Citi branch only this kind seems to give out large amounts of pesos (like 2000) There is usually only one of these in each branch. Its much larger than the others and there are no buttons, just digital screen.

There is one right on the corner right by Jackson's 2 bedroom on Callao so very convenient.

Bart[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Bizzie]The local banks may give 300-360 pesos (I later learned) At this "larger" ATM machine in Citibank, you can get at least 1000 pesos at a time.

Well done mogers![/QUOTE]Usually these "bigger" (or fancier - they are touch screen and a little more "modern-looking" than normal ATMs here) will let you have your daily limit, which in many cases is more than 1000 pesos a day. I regularly get out more myself every time I use one.

I think you ran into a cash-poor period in the area you were in. It may well have affected most of the city (living outside the city I don't usually run into those issues) - it's happened before, but I hadn't heard anything that big.

But it's not uncommon to find a small or large area of the city's banks without enough cash in the ATMs. People get paid on Friday and maybe this last Friday was a holiday (or was it the one before that? And machines weren't filled up.

Welcome to Argentina;)

It all depends on the bank and the card, but if you get the message that your request exceeds the daily limit, reduce it to 300, or 360. I think the idea is 100 US maximum.

But the stupid thing is, you can just repeat the process indefinitely. Do you want another transaction? Yes. And do another withdrawal.

Yes, of course there's a fee for the privilege of withdrawing your own money.

As for the message from Citibank machines: I'm sorry I can't do that right now: my answer is you're a fu**ing machine. It is your one dedicated task. Any hour of the day or night I seem to be able to access my Citibank account with my computer. What do you mean, you can't do that right now? Are you fu**ing R2D2 or something? And since when does a fu**ing machine get to use the first person singular pronoun?