RE: Fw: Carphone Warehouse Scam message is a Hoax....

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Then I stand corrected and appologise for wasting peoples time...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 26 July 2001 11:59
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Fw: Carphone Warehouse Scam message is a Hoax....
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:45 PM
> Subject: Carphone Warehouse Scam message is a Hoax....
>
>
> > This Scam Message is a hoax.
> >
> > The message simply wastes bandwidth in corporate e-mail systems.
> >
> > I have personally spoken t  the Carphone Warehouse's Customer
Care
> > Department.
> >
> > They have received numerous calls this morning t  verify the
story, and
> can
> > confirm that this message did *not* come from David Ross, and is
*not*
> from
> > the Carphone Warehouse.
> >
> > This Scam has been writent about in the Times today, however,
Carphone
> > Warehouse are not certain that it was true at any time.
> >
> > Good Advice is t  treat Mobile Phones, or the Internet like any
other
> media:
> > if someone walked up t  you in the street and asked you t
> phone a number,
> > you would not do so.
> >
> > Please inform the person that sent you this message that it is
> a verified
> > hoax. Do *NOT* send this message "to everyone you know"
as this will
> simply
> > cause yet more e-mail traffic.
> >
> > The Carphone Warehouse have provided a number t  call for those
who seek
> > independent verification that this hoax did *not* originate
> with them. The
> > Press Office may be contacted on 0845 6041207
> >
> > Ian Lowe,
> > Director,
> > Wintermute Consultancy Ltd
> > http://www.wintermute-ltd.com
> >
> >
>