gossythevaleter

The part about the mobi is factual, not sure about the computer bit


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 " .

PLEASE make A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS/COLLEAGUES
and PASS IT ON .

bluepolarbear

Don't go into telecoms - both are rollocks

Pastor

well intentioned but sounds like spam email/scaremail to me

Trashman

Well meant but check this: http://securityresponse.symantec.com...iful.hoax.html

carl

This bit, and... this bit are sure-fire signs it's a hoax. That coupled with the fact I've seen it before, and it was a hoax then.

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

Yet another variation on this hoary old tale. ALWAYS check snopes.com when you get an e-mail like that. I've had three urban legends forwarded to me by Home Office security....

M

andrewdelvard

This one,AGAIN?



....But thanks anyway.


Andyxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx

Tiggs

cant we get this stuff taught in schools? the only thing worse than virus emails is stuff from people "passing on" this utter rubbsih.

mug in a lake?

"If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying: "It
is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful "

my dog would laugh at this and he cant even read and only uses a PC at weekends

Buckrogers

Not seen that b4.......many times.

Do some research before acting on these types of emails....

EvilKyote

Jeeze can people please STOP BEING SO GULLABLE!!!

ok, any e-mail with the words

'Forward this message to as many friends as you can, to stop it'

is 99.999999% likely to be a HOAX and you are just adding to the problem by forwarding and posting it in every concievable way!!!!!

STOP IT! just STOP, Delete it!!!! DO NOT FORWARD IT!!!!! OK!?!

Got that?

Yes?

GOOD!

awd wrx

I also have to warn you about another hoax , if a beautiful woman knocks on your door and says she is doing a survey on ***** size , dont show her , its a con , there not doing a survey at all , they just want to look at it , I have been caught out 34 times already !!

Mogsi

Like here..

http://www.snopes.com

fast bloke

gossy - ask someone in the office abou stuff like this

SiPie

FFS

Gossy would be looking out for people on here with best intentions and thinking he'd be helping us all...maybe he isn't sad enough to sit with his whole life and head stuck in a PC all day and is not familiar with these now common hoaxes....

Give the guy a break

OllyK

I don't think anybody is questioning his intentions or motivation, just making some suggestions that may allow him to become a little more net savvy, no bad thing IMHO.

The tone of the responses may seem a little harsh, but when you have said to countless numbers of people before that it is a hoax, check stuff on snopes, people's patience starts to wear a little thin when it appears yet again.

Maybe we need a sticky!!

SiPie

Totally ... Gossy (AFAIK) has always been alot of help to people on here and he doesn't deserve the smart **** comments IMHO.

Agreed a sticky may be a good idea

andrewdelvard

OK I've edited my reply

OllyK

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Gossy, I suppose I should have some sympathy for your handicap. You are obviously paralyzed from the neck up

Richard Askew

Fair play there are some ******* on here nowadays

ScoobywagonGl

Had email from Tuscan57 this morning spammin my aol account

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God, I wish I had recieved this before; I feel so Cheap