I've also got a friend in the Nigerian foreign ministry, in case you're interested
So I just got the following little gem in my inbox:WARNING!People. Would you PLEASE do five seconds of research before passing on to everyone you know every piece of alarmist garbage that arrives in your inbox? Now granted, this isn’t as bad as the email I got a few years ago from a well-intentioned and usually reasonably straight-thinking friend begging me to sign an email petition outlawing bonsai kittens.
A well known telephone scam is now being used on cellular telephones.
There is a fraudulent company that is using a device to gain access to the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Card, which contains all subscriber related data (this is the brains in the phone) in your cellular telephone.
A scam artist places a call to an unsuspecting person and the caller says he or she is testing mobile (cellular) telephone circuits or equipment. The called party is asked to press #90 or #09. If this happens END THE CALL IMMEDIATELY with out pressing the numbers. Once you press #90 or #09 the company can access your SIM Card and makes calls at your expense.
But 99 out of 100 times when I get an email like this, it turns out to be bullshit. And I rarely have to do anything more to confirm that than take a quick look over at snopes.com, which has usually debunked it.
As is the case with the warning referenced above.
People. Do us all a favor. Limit the email forwards to anti-Starbucks rants* and pornography. Thank you.
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*Click "videos" and then "Starbucks" if you're the one person on the planet who hasn't seen this one.
posted by Amarula Dreams @ 2:33 PM
