Mobile phone user - Beware

[masona]

For Information.......

All mobile users pay attention. If you receive a phonecall and your mobile phone displays (ACE) on the screen don't answer the call, END THE CALL IMMEDIATELY.
If you answer the call, your phone will be infected by a virus. This virus will erase all IMEI and IMSI information from both your phone and your SIM card, which will make your phone unable to connect with the telephone network. You will have to buy a new phone.

This information has been confirmed by both Motorola and Nokia.

There are over 3 million mobile phones being infected by this virus in all around the world now. You can also check this news in the CNN web site.

"PLEASE FORWARD THIS PIECE OF INFORMATION TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS HAVING A MOBILE."

 

[Panjandrum]

See here:
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=99320
One reputable source says this is a hoax.
PJ
And it has been around a LONG time:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mobile.htm

Worth checking these before you pass them on, especially by e-mail.
What a waste of time, though it helps keep the providers' bandwidth humming.
As a caution to someone who passed on a hoax to me some years ago I did some sums:
You were one of 50 people who got this from Clive Atkinson
Who was one of 50 who got it from Ian Hannah
Who was one of 20 who got it from Jeremy Cruiks
Who was one of 20 who got it from J Magowan
Who was one of 15 who got it from aaaa aaaa(tequilaworms@hotmail,com)

So, assuming you sent this to about 50 people, and if everyone else has passed it on, I am one of 750 Million, (and you are one of 15 Million) people who got an e-mail as a result of the original message.

Alternatively, from this one initial message by aaaa aaaa, Intel will be sending out cheques to the total value of around $50Billion

Alternatively, at a rough estimate of 2 minutes each to read the e-mail and send it on, that makes about 2,700 years, or 40 lifetimes wasted.

 

[masona]

Unbelievable This e-mail was sent to me via my policeman friend

 

[Panjandrum]

It's easily done. The one I analysed came from a minister. Another hoax was circulated around a large number of government departments and NHS organisations by someone "quite senior".
Because IT security is part of my job I have seen a lot of the history of these things, so I get immediately suspicious when something smacks of "chain letter" by e-mail.
The most entertaining one I've seen came from a reputable security guru to his contacts:

IMPORTANT - READ THIS - AND E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS:
Beware of any e-mails with the header "Tuesday 8".
If one of these arrives in your in-box, you have caught the Tuesday8 virus.
The Tuesday8 virus will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer.
It will recalibrate your freezer so all your ice cream goes melty.
It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number.
It will freeze your fishtank.
It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over.
It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
It will make you fall in love with a penguin.
It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.
It will pour sugar in your petrol tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your credit card.
It will seduce your grandmother – it does not matter if she is dead, such is its power that it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.
It moves your car randomly around multi-storey car parks so you can't find it.
It will kick your dog.
It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice!
It is insidious and subtle.
It is dangerous and terrifying to behold.
It is a rather interesting shade of mauve.
It will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up.
It will grow pot in your windowbox and leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase schoolgirls on your new quadbike.
Listen to me.
Tuesday8 does not exist.
It cannot do anything to you. But I can.
I am copying this message to everyone in the world.
Tell your friends, tell your family. If anyone else sends me another E-mail about this fake Virus, I will turn hating them into a religion.
I will do things to them that would make a horsehead in your bed look like
Easter Sunday brunch.
So there, take that Good Times.

 

[andy]

IMPORTANT - READ THIS - AND E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS:.....

i bet some dumb blonde or charv believed it

 

[felix]

Since we're on the subject of viruses, junk mail and hoaxes, this one is true. Halifax PLC (now HBOS) changed all their MECHANICAL combination door locks on or around the end of the year 2000. Computer geeks will know exactly why they did this. They were worried about the millennium bug!

We on this forum are, for the most part, the privileged few. There's one hell of a lot of technological ignorance out there.

 

[planenut]

I can remember when the Met Police Stations started to get fitted with those mechanical combination locks. Nobody realized or thought that they all had factory settings, therefore you could open any one of them using the same code for many many months.