[Oe List ...] FW: Don't press #90 or #09 on mobile
Jim Baumbach
wtw0bl at new.rr.com
Tue Sep 27 10:09:52 EDT 2011
Jim, I assume you haven't seen the email I sent out immediately after
this scam letter came out. It would have answered your question and
also brought out another issue as well.
Jim Baumbach
On 9/27/2011 9:08 AM, James Wiegel wrote:
> So, this means, if someone asks me to do this, I SHOULD??????
>
> Jim Wiegel
> Jfwiegel at yahoo.com <mailto:Jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
>
> You do everything based on normal -- you build houses, you go on
> vacation -- now what you're seeing is it's almost as if anything can
> happen. How do you deal with the variability? David Phillips
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2011, at 11:26, "Bill Schlesinger" <pvida at whc.net
> <mailto:pvida at whc.net>> wrote:
>
>> *Analysis by Patrick Crispen:*
>>
>> As shocking as this may sound, the "nine-zero-pound" story is true
>> ... sort of.
>>
>> What the warning letter floating around the Net doesn't say is that
>> this scam only works on telephones where you have to dial 9 to get an
>> outside line. Unless you have to dial 9 to get an outside line at
>> home, this scam does not affect residential telephone users. Dialing
>> "nine-zero-pound" on a residential phone will only give you a busy
>> signal. That's it.
>>
>> On some business phones, however, dialing "nine-zero-pound" may
>> transfer a call to an outside operator and give the caller the
>> opportunity to call anywhere in the world and charge it to your
>> business' phone bill ... maybe. It all depends on how your business'
>> telephone system is set up. If your company doesn't require you to
>> dial 9 to get an outside line (for example, if you have a direct
>> outside telephone line on your desk or if your company's phone system
>> requires you to dial a number other than 9 to get an outside line)
>> the "nine-zero-pound" scam does not affect you. Also, if your
>> company's phone system is set up so that you cannot make a long
>> distance call once you have accessed an outside line (a lot of
>> companies now limit all outside lines to local calls only), the
>> "nine-zero-pound" scam does not affect you either.
>>
>> The "nine-zero-pound" story only affects those businesses that
>> require you to dial 9 to get an outside line and then place no
>> restrictions on who or where you can call once you get that outside
>> line. And, just to be anal-retentive, let me say one more time that,
>> unless you have to dial 9 to get an outside line at home, this scam
>> does/not/affect residential telephone users. [It also probably
>> doesn't affect non-U.S. telephone users. This is especially true for
>> British telephone users whose telephone system is so complex that NO
>> ONE in the UK knows how to use BT's phones (although I am sure that
>> BT users are currently dealing with some sort of "dial
>> q-seven-pi-cromwell-eleventeen-tomato" scam)].
>>
>> /--- Patrick Crispen (Reprinted fromThe Internet TourBus
>> <http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.tourbus.com/>,
>> by permission)/
>>
>> Bill Schlesinger
>>
>> Project Vida
>>
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>>
>> pvida at whc.net <mailto:pvida at whc.net>
>>
>> www.projectvidaelpaso.org <http://www.projectvidaelpaso.org>
>>
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>>
>> *From:*oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net>
>> [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] *On Behalf Of *David Yost
>> *Sent:* Monday, September 26, 2011 12:19 PM
>> *To:* Order Ecumenical Community
>> *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] FW: Don't press #90 or #09 on mobile
>>
>> Hard to know what to believe on the internet - After a little
>> research, I belive that the #90 or #09 warning is a hoax. Check out
>> this link and decide for yourself.
>>
>> http://www.hoax-slayer.com/xalan-hoax.html
>>
>> 2011/9/26 amnoel <amnoel at comcast.net <mailto:amnoel at comcast.net>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> *Subject:* FW: Don't press #90 or #09 on mobile
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On *Mon, 9/26/11, Xavier Louis /<xavierlouis at hotmail.com
>> <mailto:xavierlouis at hotmail.com>>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Xavier Louis <xavierlouis at hotmail.com
>> <mailto:xavierlouis at hotmail.com>>
>> Subject: FW: Don't press #90 or #09 on mobile
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>> Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 6:02 AM
>>
>>
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>> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:26:15 +0530
>> Subject: Fwd: Fw: Don't press #90 or #09 on mobile
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>> Date: Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:42 PM
>> Subject: Fw: Don't press #90 or #09 on mobile
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>> Fr.C.Gerard Pushparaj
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>> *Subject:* FW: Don't press #90 or #09 on mobile
>>
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>> --- On *Fri, 16/9/11, Sivananda Kendra /<sivanandakendra at gmail.com
>> <mailto:sivanandakendra at gmail.com>>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Sivananda Kendra <sivanandakendra at gmail.com
>> <mailto:sivanandakendra at gmail.com>>
>> Subject: Don't press #90 or #09 on mobile
>> To: "Sivananda Kendra" <sivanandakendra at gmail.com
>> <mailto:sivanandakendra at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Friday, 16 September, 2011, 3:36 PM
>>
>> *Dear **All**, *
>>
>> /_Dont press #90 or #09 on mobile_/
>>
>> Please take care IF SOME ONE ASKS YOU TO DIAL #09
>> or #90.
>> Please Do Not Dial This When Asked.
>>
>> Please circulate URGENTLY.
>> New Trick of Jehadi Muslim Terrorists to Frame
>> Innocent People!!
>> If you receive a phone call on your Mobile from
>> any person saying that they are checking your
>> mobile line, and you have to press #90 or #09 or
>> any other number.
>> End this call immediately without pressing any
>> numbers.
>> Team 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 u can,
>> to stop it.
>> This information has been confirmed by both
>> Motorola and Nokia.
>> There are over 3 million affected mobile phones.
>> You can check this news at CNN web site also.
>> http://www.chennai.bsnl.co.in/News/MobileDosNDonts.htm
>>
>>
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