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New emergency alert system, UK

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    During COVID there were so many scams around,  warnings of being in contact etc,  via text,  you can click on this or that for details,  lots of them were scams, seems this warning is leaving people open to scams also once the scammers get on to it.
    I don’t click on anything via the phone,   But this warning says ‘. If you don’t click on this you will not be able to use for phone’.   That will set in panic to some people,  the fear of not being able to use their phone if they don’t click on it. 
    Scammers field day by the looks of it. 

    Where did that original photoshot come from,  anyone know? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    Couldn't care less if the someone in China or Russia takes an interest in my grocery deliveries, I've got nothing to hide (I think). 

    Any paranoia is down to lack of trust in the powers that be, whoever they are. When the secret files are opened in a 100 years or less, the next generation will know if we've been duped or not, as we're now hearing the relative truth when historical files are opened. Just like the war years generation were kept from knowing what Edward and Mrs Simpson were getting up to at that time. 

    Can't blame anyone for being nervous of our governments, whatever side they are. 
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Do you have to actually open anything or just click to dismiss it?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    I don't have any objection to the government sending out alerts.
    I do object to them taking control of my phone, and stopping it working unless i do as they say.
    Sunny Dundee
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
     Where did that original photoshot come from,  anyone know? ”

    I took up the challenge @lyn and have just spent a fruitless 20 minutes doing a text search and a reverse image search. The only overlap I could find was a Facebook posting on site dedicated to the Morrison family.

    It certainly looks like the detail posted is false and the misinformation is disturbing for some. Perhaps @rowlandscastle444 who posted the original can enlighten us to the source.
    Rutland, England
  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    edited April 2023
    I’ve just read this on the BBC news page. There was also a bit on The One Show about it last night. 


     
    There is more but I just took a screenshot of a few bits that seem relevant to this thread.

    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    So there it is, scammers are off already! 
    There are so many text scams around where they tell you to click on something and you’re caught.  
    Every week I get the Which report on the latest phone scams and they tell you not to click on anything. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    edited April 2023
    It will be like a ‘ok’ notification or phone alarm you have set, not a link in a email or text. 
    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    So you have to click 'OK' to say you have received it?
    I'll just switch my phone off at 2.30 on Sunday.
    Sunny Dundee
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