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Serious warning about mobiles and emails (Read 2938 times)
eddie20
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Serious warning about mobiles and emails
Oct 18
th
, 2004, 12:14pm
Hi
Just got this sent to me by a m8.
Many of you may already have received this warning.
I haven’t yet received confirmation as to the accuracy of the message below - however everyone should take all appropriate precautions in case it is genuine
Serious warning about mobiles and emails
If you receive a phone call on your mobile from any person, saying
that, he or she is a company engineer, or telling that they ' rechecking
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.
VERY IMPORTANT WARNING 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
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.
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 " .
eddie20 8)
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gorth
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Re: Serious warning about mobiles and emails
Reply #1 -
Oct 18
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, 2004, 12:34pm
Hi m8's,
According to Symantech, this ""Life is beautiful. pps" is a HOAX. And a very old one too. It's from January 15 2002. Please don't pass it around.
gorth 8) 8) 8)
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Oct 18
th
, 2004, 7:58pm
Hi m8's,
As a rule; when a mailwarning asks you to copy it and send it to all your friends, you can be sure it's a HOAX. The message itself is the virus. Meant to clog the traffic on Internet. Do a search for HOAX or the headline in the message and make sure it's fake.
gorth 8) 8) 8)
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crobin57
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Oct 18
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, 2004, 11:28pm
Thanks Gorth
Passed on to my wife and kids.
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Oct 19
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, 2004, 5:50pm
A useful information. Thank you both.
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crobin57
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Re: Serious warning about mobiles and emails
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Oct 20
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, 2004, 10:43pm
Oop's
Credit went to wrong person Thanks eddie20 8) 8)
@Gorth please remove 1 credit... lol
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