{"id":17,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"-Donotpush90#-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Donotpush90#"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>\n            Description<br \/>\n        <\/h3>\n<p>This chain letter has spread widely across the internet. It is based,<br \/>\n          in part, upon what appears to be a genuine scam from the early 1990s &#8211;<br \/>\n          but even then it only worked in the United States on some types of<br \/>\n          telephone exchanges that had been configured in a particular way.<\/p>\n<p>The chain letter is undoubtedly causing much more of a problem (by<br \/>\n          being forwarded en masse) than the scam itself ever did.  Sophos<br \/>\n          advises computer users not to forward chain letters such as this,<br \/>\n          and simply delete the message if it is received.\n          <\/p>\n<p>A typical example of the chain letter follows:<\/p>\n<p><tt>DO NOT push 90# on your home phone.<\/p>\n<p>          Got a call last  night from an individual identifying himself as an AT&T<br \/>\n          Service technician who was conducting a test on our telephone lines.<\/p>\n<p>          He stated that to complete the test I should touch nine (9), zero  (0),<br \/>\n          hash (#) and then hang up. Luckily, I was suspicious and refused.<\/p>\n<p>          Upon contacting the telephone company, I was informed that by  pushing 90#,<br \/>\n          you give the requesting individual full access to your  telephone line,<br \/>\n          which allows them to place long distance telephone calls  billed to your<br \/>\n          home phone number. I was further informed that this scam  has been<br \/>\n          originating from many of the local ails\/prisons.<\/p>\n<p>          DO NOT press 90# for ANYONE. PLEASE pass this on to your friends.<\/p>\n<p>          If you have mailing lists and\/or newsletters from  organisations you are<br \/>\n          connected with, I encourage you to pass this on.<\/tt><\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/\/en-us\/threat-center\/threat-analyses\/hoaxes\/chain-letter\/donotpush\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/\/en-us\/threat-center\/threat-analyses\/hoaxes\/chain-letter\/donotpush<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description This chain letter has spread widely across the internet. It is based, in part, upon what appears to be a genuine scam from the early 1990s &#8211; but even then it only worked in the United States on some types of telephone exchanges that had been configured in a particular way. The chain letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}