Forward by srinivasan rajagopalan
ALL FAMILY MEMBERS SHOULD READ THIS, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN!
These crooks are getting very good!
A lady has changed her habit of how she lists her names in her cell phone directory after her handbag was stolen.
Her handbag, which contained her cell phone, credit card, purse, etc.., was stolen.
Twenty minutes later she called her husband, from a pay telephone telling him what had happened.
Her husband said, 'I have just received your text message asking about our pin number and I have replied a little while ago.'
When they rushed down to the bank, the staff told them all the money was already withdrawn.
The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text her husband listed in the directory and got hold of their pin number.
Within twenty minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.
Moral of the lesson:
Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people on your call list.
Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Mom, Dad, etc.,
And very importantly, when sensitive information is being asked for through text messages, CONFIRM by calling back.
Also, when you are being text by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them.
If you do not reach them, be very careful about going places to meet 'family and friends' who text you.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON.
I never thought about THAT!
As of right now, do you have 'home' listed in your cell phone directory?
Monday, March 23, 2009
Warning About Cell Phone Directories
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2 comments:
This is not correct. Actually, it is always recommended to have your contacts with your relations (like husband, wife) in your cell phone. Assume you are travelling alone and something happenned to you (it can be anything like accident, heart attack etc) the first thing police or ambulance will try to do is inform it to your family. In these situations, it is your cell phone directory that helps. If there are relations mentioned, it will be easy for them to contact your nearest ones. Moreover, there are very less chances of you loosing both cell phone and card at the same time by the same thief (exceptthe ladies who carry handbags). If at all you loose, first thing you need to do is to call your bank and block the cards not calling husband or wife.
Before of the emails like this one. Most of such emails are misleading ones.
Thats why you put a contact called ICE(in case of emergency) in your phone along with their number.
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