andsome Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 I have just received the following e-mail. Funnily enough it touches on a warning that I gave a few days ago, except that the scam is now more wide spread.> >Mobile Phone & Email Scams > >I have received the following detail of Mobile Phone and Email scams. >Please do not ignore this and be on guard for threats like these! > >If you receive a phone call on your mobile from any person, saying that, he >or she is a company engineer, or telling you that they're checking your >mobile line, and you have to press # 90 or #09 or any other number. End this >call immediately without pressing any numbers. There is a fraud company >using a device that once you press 90 or #09 they can access your "SIM" card >and make calls at your expense. Forward this message to as many friends as >you can, to stop it. > >ALSO Please Be Extremely Careful especially if using internet mail such as >Yahoo, Hotmail and so on. This information arrived this morning from >Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to everybody you know who accesses the >Internet. You may receive an apparently harmless email with a Power Point >Presentation "Life is beautiful. pps" If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE >UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, and delete it immediately. if you open this file, a >message will appear on your screen saying: "It is too late now, your life is >no longer beautiful", subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and >the person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and >password. This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday >afternoon. WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS. AOL has >already confirmed the severity, and the antivirus Software's are not capable >of destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself >"life owner". > >PLEASE make A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS/COLLEAGUES and PASS IT >ON IMMEDIATELY!!!! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 Unfortunately, loads of people will take this at face value and follow the instructions given. I'm sure we can expect this email to get even wider distribution, andsome :( I never open emails from sources I am unable to identify - and even then, I can be wary and use my E-prompter (Mailwasher type of thing) to open the message on the server before I download it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted October 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 The problem is pops, that this scam comes as an innocent sounding phone call from a fake engineer, everyone should be aware of this problem. Once you have dialled #90 while they are on the line it is too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 Well, with phone calls, I wouldn't follow instructions from an "engineer" either. As for these multiple choice press button jobbies at banks and utility companies etc, forget it. At the first sign of me being instructed by a robot, down goes the phone and Word gets opened on my machine. OK, a snail mail letter may take a day or so but few things are so urgent such that it or I can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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