[Gllug] New mobile phone scam alert

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Fri Jul 17 09:12:28 UTC 2009


2009/7/17 Chris Bell <chrisbell at 3966.ukfsn.org>:
>   No, it did not look like that, you can view the message by following
>
> www.ealingtoday.co.uk
> Community Forum
> True or Hoax?
>
> and it is a reference to Lancashire police complete with contact details.
>

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/jailcall.asp

A quick google of any piece of text in that forum post yields a number
of posts showing it's a hoax.

http://www.google.com/search?"mobile+line%2C+and+you+have+to+press+%2390+or+%2309+or+any+other+number%2C+end+this+"

Cheers,
Al.
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