Email is just as nasty for some mobile phones as it can be for the PC. The article below explains:

Mobile phone users are being warned about an email in circulation claiming that their handsets could be taken over.

The emails, purporting to come from Hampshire Police, state that fraudsters can take over a Sim card simply by getting the phone user to press three buttons. It also claims that a mobile virus called Xaxalan can be picked up just by answering a call.

“This is not one of ours,” said a spokeswoman from Hampshire Police. “We would never send out that kind of email. It’s possible someone’s got this from a friend in the force but if that’s the case it isn’t endorsed by us.” [Read the rest]

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