{"id":3809,"date":"2008-05-15T11:09:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T09:09:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-15T11:09:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T09:09:05","slug":"absa-warns-against-fake-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/3809-absa-warns-against-fake-email.html","title":{"rendered":"Absa warns against fake email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This follows the recirculation of an old email about ATM security functions.<\/p>\n<p>The email claims that if a person is being robbed at an ATM the police can be notified this way and that money will be dispensed while the police are on their way.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We want to warn our customers that this &#39;ATM PIN reversal functionality&#39; does not exist at Absa ATMs,&quot; Absa said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;By entering your PIN number in reverse will not notify the police in any way, nor will cash be dispensed from the ATMs.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>If a PIN number is entered in reverse the ATM will generate an error message and the transaction will be declined. <\/p>\n<p>Three of these will result in a restriction on the account holder&#39;s card.<\/p>\n<p>Absa did not know who was responsible for the email.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absa has reiterated a warning that typing a PIN into an ATM in reverse order does not work as a police emergency alert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}