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From: techwood!johnw@gatech.edu (John Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: Phone Credit Cards
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Date: 7 Feb 90 17:21:21 GMT
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Realizing that this is NOT comp.banking.pins:

In article <3564@accuvax.nwu.edu> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us 
(John R. Levine) writes:

>My bank sends out cards with no PIN, then you have to appear in person 
>at the bank once with ID, swipe in your card, then enter your PIN twice 
>and they store it for future use.  

Yeah, but the most unusual I've dealt with, since my bank is
out-of-state, is that the bank sends the card out with no PIN, then
you are called at home (at NIGHT) by the bank, and you are connected
to an automated PIN-select system. You enter up to 10 digits as your
PIN, using touch-tones(R).  My PIN was usable instantly at the ATM
down the street.


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