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25 July 2005 - Email hoaxer’s bid to
sabotage ICE
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Email hoaxers are sabotaging a campaign to encourage people to
store contact details in their mobile phones.
The ICE (In Case of Emergency) scheme gained widespread coverage
in the wake of
the London bombings as word spread by email throughout the world.
People can add into the mobile’s address book ICE and the name
and number of the
person they would like contacted in an emergency.
But a subsequent email circulated by malicious hoaxers suggests
that ICE is a type of mobile phone virus which accesses your address book and
drains pay-as-you-go
phones of its credits.
Matt Ware, spokesman for the East Anglian Ambulance Service,
asked people to ignore the hoax email:
“I have been inundated with hundreds of emails and phone
calls from people worried that, having put ICE into their mobiles, they are now
going to be charged for the privilege.
“We would like to assure people that that’s not the case. We
have checked with mobile phone companies this alleged scam is a technological
impossibility.
“Whoever began this second email chain is obviously a
malicious person with way too much time on their hands. It’s probably reached
almost as many people as the original email. The sad thing is that there have
doubtless been many people who have removed ICE from their phonebooks.”
Details of ICE can be found at
www.icecontact.com
For more information please contact Matt Ware on 07803 200351
With thanks to Matt Ware for allowing HSfB to print this news
item.
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