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Bonsai Cats???? I haven't heard that one.
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It may also help to check this out after reading it:
A web site is selling merchandise to help people create 'bonsai kittens.' Status: False. Examples:
Origins: Bonsai kittens are not real. Nobody is making bonsai kittens. Nobody is selling equipment to help people make bonsai kittens. The Bonsai Kitten web site is a joke, not an actual promotion for the making of bonsai kittens. Investigations by law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have already determined no real cats were harmed in the creation of the pictures used on the Bonsai Kitten web site. Signing a petition to shut down the Bonsai Kitten web site will not prevent any kittens from being harmed, because no kittens were harmed in the first place. It was all a joke, one which some say was in terribly poor taste. If that was your reaction, take comfort in the knowledge that many others thought the same. How could you have known the Bonsai Kitten site was a satire despite its lack of "This is a joke!" banners emblazoned across it? Satire doesn't always announce itself as such (some feel that would ruin its humor), so in cases like this, one dusts off the common sense and aims it at the problem:
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There is a very real and horrible possibility that some idiot on seeing the website might actually decide to try it though.
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Simple answer - hoax or not. If it happens to you, and you have a distressed lady on your doorstep, ask her in and say you will make the call for her. That way, if she is genuine, no problem. If she isn't, she will just make her excuses and leave.
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Got this from a website:
As urban-legends website Snopes confirms, these are spoof emails, designed to play on our fears of being ripped off. ICSTIS, which regulates premium-rate telephone lines in the UK, has confirmed that these rumours are untrue. The most expensive premium-rate (090) numbers charge £1.50 a minute. Thus, these scams are nothing more than hoaxes – it's the emails themselves that are the trick! By forwarding them to everyone in your address book, you are wasting your time and that of hundreds of other people. So, the next time that you receive a weird email of this type, check Snopes first - or just delete it. Otherwise, you join the growing list of gullible hoaxers |
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well one way to solve that one is to ask bt to put a barr on all premium rate numbers like i have that way of course u can use my phone.
That also helps if you were to get a dialer on your pc. |
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There is an easier way to stop dialers being downloaded - just be vigilant. I know a lot of people who just click on 'Yes' or 'OK' without actually checking what they are accepting.
If you are not online and just installing a game then that's generally pretty safe, but if you are online, look out for them, because they are becoming more common |
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Or use an Operating system that has security built in. ;)
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I take it you are not talking about Windows here...
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Who, me?
Would I ever..... *cough* |
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What do you use then?
(PS like the penguin!) |
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