Mobile users warned of hoax police email

Friday, 3 February 2006, 2:54 AM EST

Mobile phone users are being warned about an email in circulation claiming that their handsets could be taken over.

The emails, purporting to come from Hampshire Police, state that fraudsters can take over a Sim card simply by getting the phone user to press three buttons.

At vnunet.

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