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Beware of Vodafone and Verizon ‘your credit balance is over its limit’ emails
Nov 15th
There’s a deluge of scam emails doing the rounds at the moment, purporting to be from Vodafone or Verizon with a subject of ‘your credit balance is over its limit’ – and containing a dangerous looking file purporting to be a balance checker that it says you should run.
Of course it’s not a genuine email, and the attached executable is malware – so you SHOULD NOT open the attachment, or click on any links.
The text of the ‘Vodafone’ email is similar to this:
Dear Vodafone customer,
Your credit balance is over its limit. Please use the attached Vodafone Balance Checker Tool to review and analyze your payments.Yours sincerely,
Vodafone Customer Services
And the ‘Verizon’ version:
Dear Verizon customer,
Your credit balance is over its limit. Please use the attached Verizon Balance Checker Tool to review and analyze your payments.Yours sincerely,
Verizon Customer Services
Verizon starts shipping Samsung Alias 2 handset
May 11th
Verizon have announced the brand new Samsung Alias 2 dual-hinge messaging phone – complete with morphing ‘E Ink keyboard’ – is now available its stores for $79.99 on a two year contract.
The handset’s keyboard changes based on the function currently being used on the phone – which is quite impressive. You can open it vertically as a flip phone and it’ll pop up with a traditional numeric keypad, but open it in landscape and out comes a QWERTY keyboard.
As well as this rather cool feature, it comes with RemoSync (for syncing corporate email, contacts and calendars), a 2.0 megapixel camera, visual voicemail and the usual features you’d expect on a handset like Bluetooth, web browsing, and of course most importantly: the ability to make and receive phone calls.
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