I opened my email this morning and started deleting SPAM as usual, and behold i found this crap shit sitting in my mail server. Please refer below.

Start of shit:

Subject

Fw: Mobile Phone Alert

PLEASE BE AWARE…

If you receive a phone call on your mobile from any person, saying that,

he or she is a company engineer, or telling that they’re checking your

mobile line, and you have to press # 90 or #09 or any other number. End this call immediately without pressing any numbers. There is a fraud company using a device that once you press #90 or #09 they can access your “SIM” card and make calls at your expense.

Forward this message to as many friends as you can, to stop it.

All mobile users pay attention if you receive  a phone call and your mobile phone displays  (XALAN) on the screen don’t answer the call, END THE CALL IMMEDIATELY, if you answer the  call, your phone will be infected by a virus. This virus will erase all IMEI and IMSI information from both your phone and your SIM card, which will make your phone unable to connect with the telephone network. You  will have to buy a new phone. This information has been confirmed by both Motorola and Nokia. There are over 3 Million mobile phones being infected by this virus in all around the world now.

You can also check this news in the CNN web site.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS PIECE OF INFORMATION TO ALL

YOUR FRIENDS HAVING A MOBILE.

End of shit.

Firstly, this is a hoax. It never existed. There are handphone viruses, but they dunt spread this way. Which dolt would want to write a virus and then give u a chance to hang up on him? I know i wouldnt. Think about it.

Lets talk about spam now. A search in google will give:

" To indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. Noun: electronic “junk mail”. "

SPAM is crap, shit and junk combined. Same thing that u get, when u try to fix your sink. These so called warning messages are just a clever way of sending spams. They ride on the disgiuse of good advice or warning. Some of the very common ones would be:

– Microsoft and AOL paying cash to those who forward the email

– Young mother with dying baby asking you to forward mail so she can   get money

This not only wastes two finger strokes of our time to select and delete, they also choke up valuable bandwidth. Imagine how many other valuble info has to wait in queue while this shit goes thru the information super highway. People with better technical knowledge will probably understand how data travels thru the net and how much redundancy spam creates.

All i want to put across is,

PLEASE TAKE SOME TIME TO SEARCH THE NET BEFORE FORWARDING THINGS TO OTHERS.

Cheers

ps: The person who forwarded this, has admitted he calls his brain glutius maximus.

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