Drop Pan Numbers Meaning
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What is a Primary Account Number (PAN)
A primary account number is a 14, 15 or 16 digit number generated as a unique identifier designated for a primary account. Some accounts may have secondary account numbers associated as subsets of an account or given to secondary account holders. In some cases, the primary account number may be the only number associated with the account, thereby simply being called the account number.
BREAKING DOWN Primary Account Number (PAN)
Primary account numbers are a unique identifier that supports account record keeping and resolution if issues should arise with the account. The primary account number is typically generated when an account is opened. Therefore, it is usually the first account in a series of accounts that may be opened by a customer at a financial institution. The primary account number is also usually the number identified with a trade line on an individual’s credit report.
Both debit and credit cards may possibly be issued to a secondary account holder if authorized from the primary account. If an account has a secondary account holder, cards issued to the secondary user may have a secondary account number, or both users’ cards may use the primary account number, depending on the financial institution’s card issuing policy. In contrast, a business credit card account might have a primary account number that doesn’t appear on any employee’s credit card, and secondary account numbers that appear on each employee’s card.
Primary Account Number Identifiers
Cashpot Partnering Numbers
You can learn a lot from a primary account number if you understand the method behind its creation. The very first digit is called the major industry identifier and it identifies the type of credit card. American Express cards start with a 3, Visa cards start with a 4, MasterCard cards start with a 5, and Discover cards start with a 6. Certain airline credit cards start with a 1 or 2, petroleum company cards start with a 7 and certain telecommunications and healthcare cards start with an 8.
The first six digits identify the credit card network associated with the card, such as 601100 for Discover cards. The last digit is a checksum number, which helps prevent criminals from creating fraudulent credit card numbers. The numbers in between the first six digits and the last digit uniquely identify the customer’s account.
Primary Account Number Precautions and Legislation
Jamaica Drop Pan Numbers
Credit card companies such as Visa ask merchants to take precautions to protect customers’ primary account numbers. One such guideline is called PAN truncation. Visa says that merchants are not required to store full account numbers, since doing so presents a security risk if there is a data breach. In the United States, a federal law called the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2006 prohibits merchants from printing more than the last 5 digits of a cardholder’s account number on a receipt. Merchants are also prohibited from printing the card’s expiration date.
For people who don't know about this scene is Jamaica. I find it originated in China, another thing brought over by the Chinese.
DROP PAN
Lately, there has been renewed interest in an 'ole-time' favourite past time, the game 'Drop Pan', through the new and improved version of the game called 'Cash Pot'. Drop Pan is a game which originated among the Chinese, who brought the game to the Caribbean between the 1920's and 1930's. It is played with tickets numbered from 1 to 36, with each number being assigned one or more meanings.
Over the years, the game has been 'Jamaicanized'. The meanings associated with the figures in the game are not only Chinese in origin, but Afro-Jamaican origin as well. The system whereby numbers are assigned to every part of the human body is said to be Chinese in origin. However, some of the meanings are clearly Jamaican in origin, for example, parson, John crow, coolie and rum.
A 'banker' runs the game. He sells numbers to individuals who wager different amounts of money. Originally, the tickets would be dropped into a pan and a winning ticket selected. There are two draws per day, each play being referred to as a 'pan'. A winning number is considered to be dead for the next two pans, i.e., it is not played for two consecutive draws after it has been played.
Drop Pan is a game of chance and individuals usually decide on their numbers by way of one of three methods, by dreams, by 'rake' and by guessing. A 'rake' is an omen; something that foreshadows what is to come, like a vision. Dreams and 'rakes' are thought to be very symbolic in the Jamaican culture, thus, they are usually interpreted and translated in terms of the numbers and symbols in the game. Guessing involves studying the pattern of the game then making a selection based on how the numbers have been played over a period of time.
Here is a table of some of the Drop Pan meanings that have been collected:
Numbers Meanings
1 Ghost, milk, clothes, rice, anything white
2 Anus, sitting, bed, crab
3 Dead, duck, tongue
4 Egg, blood, wine, breast, sexual intercourse
5 Thief, dirt
6 Strong man, iron, running
7 Married woman, hog
8 Belly, belly woman, hole, bag, ring
9 Married man, cow, ol' dead, brain
10 Small house, car, gaol, small boat, animal pen
11 Boy, dog
12 Head, common horse
13 Knife, cutlass, policeman, butcher, old man, fisherman
14 Mouth, undertaker, wild puss, doorway
15 Weak, rat, running coolie woman
16 oung gyal, grass, tree, bees, anything green
17 Chineyman, drapan player, gambling, brown man
18 Doctor, race-horse, tame puss
19 Silver, coolie man, hair, scale
20 Sick, bed, food, meat, naked
21 Whore, mule, bad
22 Nurse, white woman, pigeon, coffin, bird, queen
23 Black man, monkey
24 Fresh water, medicine
25 John crow, crowd, paper money
26 White man, king, Jesus
27 Fire, accident, gun, madman
28 Road, fowl, pasture, commons, graveyard
29 Parson, bull, ram, male of any species, right foot
30 Fish, flowers, rum, mud
31 Pulpit, kaki, wood, small rope
32 Gold, ****, ripe fruit, beggar
33 Big house, hospital
34 Gyal-baby, soldier
35 She-goat, ******, bible
36 Hong Kong, foreign country, old lady, donkey
Although the game is Chinese in origin, each country in which it is played includes meanings that are reflective of their culture. Thus the meanings differ from country to country. In Trinidad, for example, the game is called 'Wey-Wey' and the meanings are as follows:
Numbers Meanings Numbers Meanings
1 Centipede 19 Horse
2 Old lady 20 Dog
3 Peacock 21 Mouth
4 Dead man 22 Rat
5 Groundworm 23 Big house
6 Belly 24 Queen
7 Pig 25 Morocoy
8 Tiger 26 Fowl
9 Cattle 27 Little snake
10 Monkey 28 Red fish
11 Police, corbeau 29 Drunk man, drugs
12 King 30 House, cat
13 Crapaud 31 Parson wife
14 Money ear 32 Lo-lo
15 Sick woman 33 Spider
16 Jammet woman 34 Blin' man
17 Pigeon 35 Big snake
18 Water boat 36 Donkey
There is an apparent difference in the meanings and their corresponding numbers in Jamaica and Trinidad.
The game Drop Pan has been illegal for a long time. As a matter of fact, the Gambling Law, which was amended in 1926, included the games Drop Pan and Peaka Pow by name as being illegal. Anyone caught selling numbers without the proper license can be arrested and fined.
Despite its illegality, however, Drop Pan is still a very popular game in Jamaica. It is another indicator of the diversity of the Jamaican culture.