[Gllug] New mobile phone scam alert

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 17 Jul, Alan Pope wrote:
> 
> 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+a
> ny+other+number%2C+end+this+"
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.

   Thanks, I will pass that back to the forum.

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