Post by Phil on Aug 5, 2005 19:08:23 GMT
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PLEASE BE AWARE : This can be checked with the Warwickshire Police.
Some of you may have sent an email about an idea that (apparently) came from the emergency services of entering the letters ICE into your mobile phone memory, together with the phone number of the person you would like contacted in the event of being involved in an emergency situation. It now appears that this was almost certainly the first phase of a scam, and that anyone who has ICE or I.C.E. saved in their mobile can be sent costly ring tones. Here's the text as sent by the Warwickshire Police:-
To all you people who thought this was a good idea.
You know the email that's gone round saying put ICE then a contact number in case of emergency? Well don't do it ....
Be very careful with this one - although the intention is great it is unfortunately phase one of a phone based virus that is laying
a path for propagating very quickly. Passing it on is part of the virus interestingly, such is the deviousness of the people who write
these things.
We have already seen the "second phase" where a program is sent as part of a ring-tone download that goes into your address book and
looks for something it recognises - you've guessed it, an address book entry marked "ICE or I.C.E." or whatever. It then sends itself to the
"ICE list", charging you for the privilege.
I am sorry to put a damper on a good idea.
PLEASE BE AWARE : This can be checked with the Warwickshire Police.
Some of you may have sent an email about an idea that (apparently) came from the emergency services of entering the letters ICE into your mobile phone memory, together with the phone number of the person you would like contacted in the event of being involved in an emergency situation. It now appears that this was almost certainly the first phase of a scam, and that anyone who has ICE or I.C.E. saved in their mobile can be sent costly ring tones. Here's the text as sent by the Warwickshire Police:-
To all you people who thought this was a good idea.
You know the email that's gone round saying put ICE then a contact number in case of emergency? Well don't do it ....
Be very careful with this one - although the intention is great it is unfortunately phase one of a phone based virus that is laying
a path for propagating very quickly. Passing it on is part of the virus interestingly, such is the deviousness of the people who write
these things.
We have already seen the "second phase" where a program is sent as part of a ring-tone download that goes into your address book and
looks for something it recognises - you've guessed it, an address book entry marked "ICE or I.C.E." or whatever. It then sends itself to the
"ICE list", charging you for the privilege.
I am sorry to put a damper on a good idea.
