Mobile ....contact list......WARNING

Be careful how you list your mobile contacts !
This lady has changed her habit of how she lists her names on her
mobile
phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag which contained her
mobile, Credit card, purse...etc.... was stolen. 20 minutes later when
she called Her Hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened,
hubby says "I've Just received your text asking about our Pin number
and
I've replied a little while ago."

When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the
money was already withdrawn. The pickpocket had actually used the
stolen
hand phone to text "hubby" in the contact list and got hold of the pin
number.
Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from the bank account.

The lesson: Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people
in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Hubby,
Dad, Mum etc....... And very importantly, when sensitive
info is being asked thru texts, CONFIRM by calling back.

Also, when you're being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be
sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don't
reach them, be very careful about going places to meet "family and
friends" who text you.

 

What a fright that gave me Gogs! You really can't be careful enough on all fronts. Thanks for passing the warning along.

 

Thanks for the warning will pass this on to my contacts.
Nothing seems to be safe anymore! :eek:

 

Moral of the story NEVER disclose your PIN numbers! Not even to hubby or wifey!


However, what was the source of that tidbit? Many of these stories are urban myths and spam. Like the one that was going the rounds about a man in the supermarket car park flogging perfumes. He would get a woman to sniff the bottle but it was not perfume but an anaesthetic ether and she would be knocked out and wake to find all her belongings and her car stolen!

Utter nonsense! I have seen people being anaesthetised with "gas" and it takes at least 5 mins with concentrated stuff to render even a tiny baby unconscious.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet or in the papers!!

 

Passed on to me by a friend ,to be taken more as a caution than a news story i would say.

 

Ooh, Daisy-m,

I'm a sucker for urban legends, we could start a whole new thread for them.

TO

 

Be a BIG thread, methinks!!