Does anyone know if it is true that you cannot use a PIN number if begins with a 0?
Please advise as we may need to change ours if this is true.
many Thx, Sandi
Posted by
US Pacific Northwest
10344 posts
Leading zeros have not been a problem for travelers reporting in here.
it must be a 4-digit PIN
and European ATM's don't have letters on the keys, and so if you "think of your PIN" in terms of letters, make sure you know what the corresponding #'s are, because only the numerals are on the ATM keypads in Europe.
Re the leading zero thing, this is a persistent urban myth, or European travel myth, whatever you want to call it. We get the question all the time here. And in the last couple of years I can't recall one person who said 1) they had a PIN beginning with a zero and 2) had a problem.
For your peace of mind, here are 130 prior discussions of this question had on this forum.
click here
I haven't been through them. You might want to browse through and see if you can find any indication that a leading zero was ever a problem.
Posted by
OP
Harrington, AZ, USA
4 posts
One person mentioned that it used to be a problem, but no longer! Hope they are correct. Wonder if "better save than sorry" is best advise.
Thanks, Sandi
Posted by
US Pacific Northwest
10344 posts
Yes, as you suggest above, better safe than sorry is probably not a bad strategy to adopt, when it comes to your ATM card in Europe. That and/or having a 2nd ATM, with different PIN etc.