Hoax alert
New hoax email comes to light after the launch in the UK of a campaign involving personal emergency contact numbers
It has been a long while since VB reported on any virus
hoaxes, but last month saw a new hoax email come to light
after the launch in the UK of a campaign involving personal
emergency contact numbers.
The campaign, which gained
momentum following the London bombings of 7 July,
encourages mobile phone owners to add an entry in their
mobile phone contacts list entitled 'ICE' (standing for 'In
Case of Emergency'), and to enter against it the number of
the person they would want to be contacted in case of an
emergency. Should the worst then happen, the emergency
services would quickly be able to find and contact the
person's next of kin.
Unfortunately the campaign is in
danger of grinding to a halt thanks to the actions of hoaxers,
who have taken it upon themselves to start a chain letter
email urging people not to add an ICE entry to their mobile
phones because, the email claims, there is a virus that will
exploit it. Of course there is no such virus and the hoax
achieves nothing more than to cause confusion and damage
the campaign. Details of the ICE campaign can be found at
http://www.icecontact.com/.
30 July 2005
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