{"id":2336,"date":"2019-04-06T19:34:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2336"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Mobile-Phone-Misinformation---XALAN-and-#90-Hoax---Hoax-Slayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2336","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Phone Misinformation &#8211; XALAN and #90 Hoax &#8211; Hoax-Slayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"inner-post-entry\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>This report was first published in November 2005.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A would-be warning, which has been circulating since at least 2005, claims that scammers are hijacking mobile phones by tricking users into pressing a specific combination of digits. A variant of the message claims that terrorists rather than scammers are using the trick in order to make calls at your expense and frame you as a criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Some versions also warn you not to answer a call that displays &#8220;XALAN&#8221; on your phone screen because answering will infect your phone with a virus.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Warning is an Old Hoax<\/h2>\n<p>However, the warning is a hoax. None of the information provided in any versions of the message is in any way valid for mobile phone users.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of the hoax email claims that pressing #90 or a similar combination of digits will give a fraudster or terrorist access to your sim card and allow him or her to make calls at your expense. This is untrue and has been denied by Australian telecommunications giant, Telstra, South African communications company, <a title=\"Urgent Warning From MTN - hoax\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130819014239\/http:\/\/www.mtn.co.za\/Support\/ReportFraud\/Pages\/ScamsHoaxes.aspx\">MTN<\/a>, and other service providers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This part of the hoax is derived from earlier, partially factual, warnings about scammers who try to use &#8220;90#&#8221; to hijack fixed line phones. Such a <a class=\"norm\" title=\"Nine Zero Hash Phone Scam Hoax\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/nine-zero-hash-hoax.html\">scam is possible on certain types of business telephone switching equipment<\/a> that requires users to dial &#8220;9&#8221; to get an outside line. However, mobile phones are in no way vulnerable to this scam. It is not possible for a scammer to hijack your mobile phone by getting you to key in #90, #09, 90# or any other such combination of digits.<\/p>\n<h2>XALAN Virus Warning Is Also Untrue<\/h2>\n<p>The information about the supposed &#8220;XALAN&#8221; virus is also untrue. Although mobile phone malware is certainly a growing threat, there is <a title=\"Mobile Phone Virus Hoax\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/mobile-phone-virus-hoax.html\">no virus like the one described<\/a> in the email message. There are a number of alternative versions of the &#8220;warning&#8221; message, some of which list the word displayed as &#8220;UNAVAILABLE&#8221; or &#8220;ACE&#8221; rather than &#8220;XALAN&#8221;. Again, Telstra, <a class=\"norm\" title=\"Urgent Warning From MTN - hoax\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130819014239\/http:\/\/www.mtn.co.za\/Support\/ReportFraud\/Pages\/ScamsHoaxes.aspx\">MTN<\/a>, and other providers have denied the existence of such viruses.<\/p>\n<p>Note that &#8220;terrorist&#8221; version of the hoax also sometimes appears at the bottom of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/missed-375-calls.shtml\">another misleading message <\/a>that \u00a0warns you not to return missed calls from numbers starting with +375 or +371.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HSNet Article Center --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"5727909035\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"example\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t Press<br \/>\n#90 or #09<br \/>\non your Mobile when asked by any caller.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a New Trick of Terrorists to access your SIM card, Make calls at your expense and frame you as a criminal.<br \/>\nForward this message to as many friends as U can, to stop it.<\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/xalan-hoax.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/xalan-hoax.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report was first published in November 2005. A would-be warning, which has been circulating since at least 2005, claims that scammers are hijacking mobile phones by tricking users into pressing a specific combination of digits. A variant of the message claims that terrorists rather than scammers are using the trick in order to make [&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-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}