It will be like a ‘ok’ notification or phone alarm you have set, not a link in a email or text.
That is so, providing you get the genuine message, but when the scammers start, as they did with covid, you’ll need to be careful when you click on ok.
I don’t know about anything in an email, hadn’t heard of that.
I did suspect the OP screenshot was a scam and that’s the type of message you will have to beware of.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
But like it says turn you phone off or put it on ‘airplane’ mode over 3 o’clock then your phones won’t receive a phone mast signal and won’t get the alert.
Or go in you phone settings and turn off the emergency alerts.
So you have to click 'OK' to say you have received it? I'll just switch my phone off at 2.30 on Sunday.
The BBC article says you can just swipe to dismiss the notification the same as you would with any phone system notification. You're not confirming receipt to anyone, you're just closing the alert. I think it's misleading to say it stops you using your phone, all it means is that the alert doesn't self-dismiss because if it did people might miss seeing it.
Scams will come through as a text or email and scammers can't create alerts on your phone like this but I've no doubt that scammers will try some approach to mimic it. Just remember that alerts require no action other than closing the alert and anything else that asks for further action is to be treated as suspicious.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
From what I've read it's a system already in use in many countries including New Zealand and the USA to warn of severe weather events. Whilst we seem to get far fewer events which require very rapid warnings being issued, I understand the potential value of it.
@wild edges. Absolutely, it’s just that some people, in a state of anxiety will click. Everything is open to scam, depends if you fall for it.
I didn’t mean to stir anything up, just needed to prove that the OP was a scam in itself, and to show how people may fall for it.
It will be of benefit, not sure about down here though, if they give a weather warning about high/Spring tides, lots of people flock to the beaches, cliffs and harbour walls just to see it. 🌊
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
@wild edges. Absolutely, it’s just that some people, in a state of anxiety will click. Everything is open to scam, depends if you fall for it.
I didn’t mean to stir anything up, just needed to prove that the OP was a scam in itself, and to show how people may fall for it.
It will be of benefit, not sure about down here though, if they give a weather warning about high/Spring tides, lots of people flock to the beaches, cliffs and harbour walls just to see it. 🌊
Great recent to have it then. Stay at a safe distance and watch the Darwin Awards in action.
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Or go in you phone settings and turn off the emergency alerts.
Lots of ways not to receive it if your worried 🙂.
Failure is always an option.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Great recent to have it then. Stay at a safe distance and watch the Darwin Awards in action.
I am sure you would be happy to receive these so that you can get your children from school and safely home as well as the elderly and beloved pets.