A friend forwarded me this thing. To sum up this French message, it says DO NOT DIAL 90#. Whether it’s real or not, it doesn’t matter, but it doesn’t hurt to not dial it, because it’s apparently a phone hacking sequence which makes you give total control of your phone to… there’s the mystery. Now, why would anyone dial weird numbers like that anyway?
Sujet : 90#
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This is a real scam, documented on Snopes.com and elsewhere. It doesn’t affect residential customers, only businesses and other organizations that use a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) internal phone system. It doesn’t work on all systems; in some cases they will try some “social engineering” to get you to redirect to an operator.
Essentially, the scammer tries to get control of an outside line, through which they can then make free long-distance calls or commit further fraud. This scam often occurs with people calling from prisons.
So, if you receive a collect call from a prison, or from someone claiming to be from the phone company…hang up!