So, the pin code. Great and not terrible

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

It is unlikely that someone needs to explain what a pin code is. Just in case, it should be clarified: this is a personal identification number that each owner of a plastic card receives. Without it, you won’t be able to receive money at an ATM or pay in a store (except in some cases when entering this number is not required to confirm your buying intentions).

According to banking rules, after reading this four-digit "password", you must immediately destroy it. Along with an envelope. Naturally, having previously learned it by heart. But since a person's thoughts are usually occupied with something more important, the card is simply wrapped in this very annihilated envelope until such time as it is required to use it. And this is a gross violation of security. One of the many, by the way. The first forbidden action has already been mentioned above: never wrap the received plastic in an envelope that contains a pin code. Perhaps, on the way home, fate will play a cruel joke on you, but will smile at pickpockets. It’s better to immediately enter this short four-digit combination into your diaryor cellular. Of course, without a note what kind of number it is. Some citizens consider themselves the minions of fate and write it down on a paper strip, which is located on the back of the card. Yes, yes, the one on which you need to put your signature. Well…no comment here.

Never disclose your PIN code to third parties. This dry clerical expression means your friends, acquaintances, relatives and even a neighbor with whom you smoke on the landing. The fact is that any operation carried out using this "password" is considered to be the one carried out by the cardholder. Here, by the way, it should also be mentioned that no one in the world has the right to require you to give a pin code: neither the bank, nor the online store, where it was decided to pay with "plastic" for the purchase of a new cat carrier, nor anyone else. Be vigilant: any hint or veiled request to provide this information is a sure sign of an upcoming scam. And only in your power to prevent it.

Guess three times how to find out the pin code of a bank card belonging to you, can an attacker? Very simply: at the time of its introduction. Either looking from behind when cashing out at an ATM, or when the combination is entered when paying for purchased goods in a store. Therefore, cover your manipulations with your free hand or purse. This, by the way, is not at all funny. If a person has forgotten the pin code of a bank card, he will not havewho will recognize him. It should be understood that in nature it exists in a single copy. Envelopes with magic numbers are printed in the bowels of financial institutions without any human presence. Therefore, at best, you can delve into your "sclerosis" or cell phone - you wrote down the received code there at one time, right? At worst, you will have to go to the bank again to reissue a new one, and sleep completely peacefully.