[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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>> (915) 533-7057 x 207
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>>
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>>
>> www.projectvidaelpaso.org <http://www.projectvidaelpaso.org>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> *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:
>>
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>> 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: Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 9:42 PM
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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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