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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: USA4ME on January 16, 2009, 10:56:12 AM
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(I received this via e-mail. Don't know if all, or any, of this is true, but others here might be able to confirm or deny the factuality)
This Is Not A Joke!
THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival.
Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST
Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112
If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
SECOND
Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry?
This may come in handy someday.
Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone.
Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end.
Your car will unlock.
Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and
it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'
THIRD
Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your mobile battery is very low.
To activate, press the keys *3370#
Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery.
This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.
FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number,
key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen.
This number is unique to your handset.
Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.
When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code.
They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.
You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either.
If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
BONUS
ATM - PIN Number Reversal - Good to Know
If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your PIN # in reverse.
For example, if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321
The ATM system recognizes that your PIN number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine.
The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to the location.
This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it. Please pass this along to everyone.
This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends.
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I believe most, if not all, of that is Grade A bullshit.
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I wish my cell phone had a number I can dial to incur the wrath of God to kill bunnies. I guess I have to wait until 2012 when their Days are coming.
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Mostly BS...... http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mobile-phone-tips.shtml
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This is the straight goods:
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I have used it and it's in fact free and usually pretty good.
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False information circulating on e-mail about PINs
abstract of ABA financial literacy swirl
The Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) says information circulating in an e-mail about the use of a ‘reverse PIN’ at an ATM is false. From time to time, an e-mail containing incorrect information circulates in the community. This fact sheet has been prepared advising the community about this ‘urban myth’.
The e-mail claims that by entering your PIN in reverse into an ATM will summon police. This claim is false.
http://www.bankers.asn.au/default.aspx?ArticleID=1109
I'd imagine pin numbers are verified with a hash anyway...
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Thanks. This sounded like a bunch of baloney, but I wasn't sure. I tried the "To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # . A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset" thing today while I was out and got nothing, but that's the only one I tried.
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The car-unlocking thing sounds like the only possibly useful one, even if it works.
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The car-unlocking thing sounds like the only possibly useful one, even if it works.
They will definately unlock your car door.................if used to call a locksmith.