OT: Phone fraud

Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

Police Warning - Mobile Phone Fraud

You've been taken in. It's an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/jailcall.asp

Chris
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Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

Police Warning - Mobile Phone Fraud

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.

Is this the same as ...

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/xalan-hoax.html

or

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/jailcall.asp

If so, it appears that the police are not checking their sources.

--
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Evolution is a harsh mistress.

Don Whybrow said:

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Police Warning - Mobile Phone Fraud

....

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Is this the same as ...

Quoted message said:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/xalan-hoax.html

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or

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http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/jailcall.asp

I got the same rubbish forwarded to me on Friday, purportedly from a
Nazir Hussain in the Greater Manchester Police, who had allegedly
received it from the Lancashire Police.

May I add

http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/please-do-not-perpetuate-the-9-0-hash-hoax.html

as yet another debunking site.

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Alan J. Wylie wrote on 03/12/2006 22:53 +0100:

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I got the same rubbish forwarded to me on Friday, purportedly from a
Nazir Hussain in the Greater Manchester Police, who had allegedly
received it from the Lancashire Police.

I got it forwarded from a policeman in the Lancashire force. I do hope
their powers of detecting fraudulent information is better than they are
demonstrating here.

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Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

Police Warning - Mobile Phone Fraud

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.

Gee, a warning from an anonymous internet coward. The truth is that if
you press the buttons, you'll get a salamander implanted in your brains.
It will report to the government all your fake internet addresses.

Response to Tony Raven:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I got the same rubbish forwarded to me on Friday, purportedly from a
Nazir Hussain in the Greater Manchester Police, who had allegedly
received it from the Lancashire Police.

I got it forwarded from a policeman in the Lancashire force. I do hope
their powers of detecting fraudulent information is better than they are
demonstrating here.

I got mine back in March, from the Security Manager at the university
SWMBO works at; who was acting on information received from the police.

I pointed him towards
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/nine-zero-hash-hoax.html
and forgot about it, my usual policy towards email frighteners.

--
Mark, UK
"You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I
deserve it."

In article said:

Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

Police Warning - Mobile Phone Fraud

Gee, a warning from an anonymous internet coward.

He's a regular poster (who should know better).

Alan Braggins said:

In article said:

Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

Police Warning - Mobile Phone Fraud

Gee, a warning from an anonymous internet coward.

He's a regular poster (who should know better).

True, True. I got mine from our BCU intranet site so assumed it's
authenticity. I appologise for my mistake. Words will be had.

🙁

Sniper8052

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Quoted message said:

True, True. I got mine from our BCU intranet site so assumed it's
authenticity. I appologise for my mistake. Words will be had.

🙁

Sniper8052

Everybody makes mistakes. The sentiment was one of trying to give a warning
of something you thought was harmful so in the great scheme of things, this
was a minor mistake. Sackcloth & ashes not required :-)

in message <[email hidden]>, Paul Cassel

(') said:

Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

Police Warning - Mobile Phone Fraud

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.

Gee, a warning from an anonymous internet coward.

Sniper is well known to this group as a Metropolitan Police officer. The
fact that Sniper isn't his real name doesn't mean he's anonymous, or a
coward.

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Paul Cassel said:

Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

Police Warning - Mobile Phone Fraud

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Gee, a warning from an anonymous internet coward. The truth is that if
you press the buttons, you'll get a salamander implanted in your brains.
It will report to the government all your fake internet addresses.

We all can and do make mistakes. This one was made while intending to
help people. Let S/he who is without sin (or accidental error)cast the
first stone. I for one am not in a position to throw it!

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:09:24 -0000 someone who may be "wafflycat"
<w*a*ff£y£cat*@£btco*nn£ect.com> wrote this:-

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Everybody makes mistakes.

Some people think they have never made a mistake, but they haven't
made anything else either.

Quoted message said:

Sackcloth & ashes not required :-)

Indeed. More importantly the OP has indicated that he is taking this
up with the people who provided him with the information.

--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

Jo said:

Paul Cassel said:

Sniper8052(L96A1) said:

Police Warning - Mobile Phone Fraud

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Gee, a warning from an anonymous internet coward. The truth is that
if you press the buttons, you'll get a salamander implanted in your
brains. It will report to the government all your fake internet
addresses.

We all can and do make mistakes. This one was made while intending to
help people. Let S/he who is without sin (or accidental error)cast the
first stone. I for one am not in a position to throw it!

BUT, it is wise to check before forwarding such internet scare messages as I
did simply by googling "#90 or #09"

pk

Mark McNeill said:

Response to Tony Raven:

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Quoted message said:

I got it forwarded from a policeman in the Lancashire force. I do hope
their powers of detecting fraudulent information is better than they are
demonstrating here.

I seem to remember Guy passing it on a year or two ago after his
company had received a warning from their local police.

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I got mine back in March, from the Security Manager at the university
SWMBO works at; who was acting on information received from the police.

I also got this passed on from my wife when she was working in the NHS
and had received the hoax alert from their technical support
department. I e-mailed the originator a couple of links explaining how
to tell genuine alerts from fraudulent ones and got a huffy note back
saying he was just trying to be helpful. AFAIK if he received the same
warning again he would just do the same. :-(

--
Dave...

p.k. said:

BUT, it is wise to check before forwarding such internet scare messages as I
did simply by googling "#90 or #09"

True. However, this one is remaining in circulation mainly because the
police keep publishing it. (I got it along with my neighbourhood watch
bulletin a few weeks ago).

Tim.

Simon Brooke said:

Sniper is well known to this group as a Metropolitan Police officer. The
fact that Sniper isn't his real name doesn't mean he's anonymous, or a
coward.

But he is a genuine sniper, so be careful. :-)

--
Dave...

Quoted message said:

p.k. said:

BUT, it is wise to check before forwarding such internet scare messages as I
did simply by googling "#90 or #09"

True. However, this one is remaining in circulation mainly because the
police keep publishing it. (I got it along with my neighbourhood watch
bulletin a few weeks ago).

I just got it from my dad asking whether it was genuine. I have
educated him on how to check such things..

...d

David Martin said the following on 04/12/2006 15:30:

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I just got it from my dad asking whether it was genuine. I have
educated him on how to check such things..

Dads. Whoever let them have access to email? Mine passes on every
bl**dy "warning" he gets, despite my asking him not to.

A while ago I was selling some product to a particular group, and set up
a specific email address for that. A few weeks later I had an email
telling me what a wonderful idea the mobile phone ICE number is (which
it is). The catch was that he put every single person in his address
book in the "To" field, so that email address suddenly got a massive
circulation. A couple of hours pass - another email again addressed to
all apologising for the previous email, but the ICE number is a hoax, so
please disregard it. Another couple of hours pass.... I'm sure you can
guess the rest.

Needless to say that particular email address had to be black-holed (it
had served it's purpose anyway) because of the influx of spam sent to it...

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

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Alan Braggins said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Paul

Cassel said:

Sniper8052(L96A1) wrote:
> Police Warning - Mobile Phone Fraud
>
Gee, a warning from an anonymous internet coward.

He's a regular poster (who should know better).

True, True. I got mine from our BCU intranet site so assumed it's
authenticity. I appologise for my mistake. Words will be had.

Well done for acknowledging the problem.
Whether you have any luck with the source is anyone's guess, but thanks for
trying. This one has cropped up on various "official" sources for years;
I've known it mentioned on police force and related council sites for ages.

Lesson; check any urban legend on a couple of the sites quoted earlier in
the thread.

- Nigel

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