Beware of emails promising free radar detectors
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<<Think about it, the five zeros are mailed to everyone>> - I have, and 1) how? 2) why? - hardly an identifier into your particular phone!
<<It does work by the way, alerts
you to radar ..>> Yeh, of course it does!!
Keep taking what you read on the Internet as gospel...BTW I know how to make £1m from the Internet in 2 days...send me a cheque for £50 and I'll tell you!
<<It does work by the way, alerts
you to radar ..>> Yeh, of course it does!!
Keep taking what you read on the Internet as gospel...BTW I know how to make £1m from the Internet in 2 days...send me a cheque for £50 and I'll tell you!
Taken from another site, Im sure the guy wont mind:
"You may have received this email:
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If you have a Nokia 5110, you can turn it into a free radar detector. Here's how:
Follow this code
1. Enter your menu
2. Select settings
3. Select security settings
4. Select closed user group
5. Select on
6. Enter 00000
7. Press ok
Clear back to normal, within a few seconds your phone will display a radar sign with five zero's next to it. It is now activated.
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DON'T DO IT.
Do not use this under any circumstances. It is a way of criminals accessing your SIM
card and making use of your call contract to do whatever they please and is a scam. We
ran a test on it yesterday here at our IT department with our Security (Hacker)
Manager. It opens up the phone for all kind of abuse. It does work by the way, alerts
you to radar and while you're worried about speed traps, they are milking your
account. Think about it, the five zeros are mailed to everyone. When you buy a new
phone your security code by default is 00000. These guys are in cohorts with someone at ********** and can do whatever they please.
Shame."
Bren
"You may have received this email:
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If you have a Nokia 5110, you can turn it into a free radar detector. Here's how:
Follow this code
1. Enter your menu
2. Select settings
3. Select security settings
4. Select closed user group
5. Select on
6. Enter 00000
7. Press ok
Clear back to normal, within a few seconds your phone will display a radar sign with five zero's next to it. It is now activated.
------------
DON'T DO IT.
Do not use this under any circumstances. It is a way of criminals accessing your SIM
card and making use of your call contract to do whatever they please and is a scam. We
ran a test on it yesterday here at our IT department with our Security (Hacker)
Manager. It opens up the phone for all kind of abuse. It does work by the way, alerts
you to radar and while you're worried about speed traps, they are milking your
account. Think about it, the five zeros are mailed to everyone. When you buy a new
phone your security code by default is 00000. These guys are in cohorts with someone at ********** and can do whatever they please.
Shame."
Bren
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Yep, big scam. A 'Closed User Group' is a way of enabling conference calling on some phones, if the networks let you use it, which they don't. No way it could pick up radar as it's at a completely different frequency to mobile comms, and also different to Infra-Red so it can't get in that way.
Big hoax! Don't worry about it!
Richard
Big hoax! Don't worry about it!
Richard
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From: Old Codgers Home
Everyone knows that the Nokia never worked like this ....
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it was the Motorola phones - you had to point them towards the Radar transmitters at your local airfield while pressing 1,3 and 0 at the same time. The phone then took in the radar waves and gave them out when used as a radar detector, thus confusing radar speed traps.
Pete
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it was the Motorola phones - you had to point them towards the Radar transmitters at your local airfield while pressing 1,3 and 0 at the same time. The phone then took in the radar waves and gave them out when used as a radar detector, thus confusing radar speed traps.
Pete
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