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Deutsche Telekom warning hoax

A fake Deutsche Telekom warning message appeared in Germany in the enf of May, 2000. Here's the English translation by Hagen Bender:

 Dear collueges,

 the following Message of the Deutsche Telekom AG shall be
 forwarded to as many owners of mobile phones as possible:

 If you receive a message on your mobile to call the number
 0141/455414, don't reply to it in any case. Otherwise your
 invoice could become hight as a montain.

 This information was puplished by the "Office Central de
 Repression du Banditisme". Some time ago, peculators found a
 posibility to use your mobile in a surreptitious way. They call
 your mobile and pretend to be your provider. They ask you to
 enter a PIN-number (the 09 or 90) with the explanation, that
 this is needed to proove the functionallity. Do not enter this
 Codenumber and hang up at once! Otherwise the peculators have
 the possibility to read the number of your SIM-card, with which
 they will produce new cards.

 This cheat is going on on a high level. Therefore it is
 necessairy to forward this information very fast and to post it
 to as many people as possible.

If you receive this warning or something closely resembling it either in English or German, please ignore it and don't pass it on.