[Gllug] New mobile phone scam alert

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Fri Jul 17 08:53:03 UTC 2009


2009/7/17 Chris Bell <chrisbell at 3966.ukfsn.org>:
>   I have just seen an alert from local police about a new scam call
> requesting that a number be keyed in, current reason given is "testing
> connection", but it opens the SIM for cloning.
>

Did it look like this?

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mobile.asp

It's probably best not to pass on these kinds of tidbits of
(incorrect) information.

Cheers,
Al.
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