THE LONDON Evening Standard recently published a reader’s letter
which stated as unqualified fact that “a fraud company has designed a device
whereby once you press #90 or 09# (at the request of a cold caller purporting to
be a cellphone service engineer) they can access your SIM card and make calls at
your expense”.
Similar warnings have been raised before but in chain e-mails or on Internet
chat sites, never in hard newsprint as solid fact. So now people will know it’s
true.
Feedback reckoned there was only one way to find out for sure—ask the
companies that…
