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Friday, August 27, 2004

Dont you just love a good hoax

Everyone in the company this morning had a nice email waiting for them from someone who will rename nameless warning us all of two phone scams that "are very scary and can cost you £100".

There was the usual ill informed rubbish like "You get charged at £20/minute for 5 minutes even if you hang up! if you ring the number.

Of course 5 minutes work on line exposed them for the hoaxes they are. This things can be worse than viruses. They just clog up mail systems.

So with industrial grade sarcasm we send the following two links back

Good Times Virus FAQ

Nigerian killer numbers

No reply so far...

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