mobile phone scam

[Lump]

hi all just pass this on

Dear All,

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. Forward this message to as many colleagues,
relatives and friends as you can, to stop it.

 

[Raffles]

Is it April already?

 

[ShelleyHicky]

Mr. LUMP .... always in the know!
Thank for the heads up

 

[mikey601]

hi all just pass this on

Dear All,

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. Forward this message to as many colleagues,
relatives and friends as you can, to stop it.

So why did you just call me and ask me to do it

 

[Buddha 3]

Drats! My plan has been thwarted!




Damn paintballers...

 

[Lump]

its ok i already have enough sim info thanks guys

 

[Raffles]

Thank you 'D'.

Maybe next time you should all ask a telephone engineer .

The OLD '#9' trick was used to trick people at work to connect you to an outside line on their phone system (most new pabx's do not use the # key as a blind-transfer key anymore), then you could simply dial out at their cost.

Another trick was when an employee at a company decided to forward his desk phone to his 'family' in India.

At the weekend, he dialled his DDI - and talked to his family for 1p/minute - but costing his company 100 times that!

We only discovered it after installing a call management system - which gave reports on idividual extensions. Aparently, it had been going on for months.

 

[Dskize]

all so dull..bring back Captain Crunch