Got the following in an email from a buddy of mine. He's one of those "pass this email on" type of guys. You the know the ones I'm talking about. Can anyone confirm this or is it mostly BS. I'm mostly interested in the second one. Smells like BS to me. _______________________________________________ 5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in your car, purse, and wallet. Good information to have with you.) 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 world wide 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 dialed 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 cell 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 cell phone!' THIRD Hidden Battery Power Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370#. Your cell phone will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell phone 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: *#06#. 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. And Finally.... FIFTH Free Directory Service for Cells Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 i nformation calls when they don't have to.. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800)FREE411, or (800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
Aye ya ya! Muy estúpido! Ni siquiera tengo un teléfono celular! Ooooh, pero yo soy el más rápido en todos los ratón Mexico! Haaa ha!
So sick of email forwarding. it's very annoying. I don't mean like funny pictures or something about friends/family, that's fine. But these "10 things you didn't know" and more so political crap. I think i pissed off my friends gf by replying to couple of them going "stop sending me this... crap because i am loosing braincells reading it..." when i got email forward from her. One was about Mexicans and how all Mexicans smuggle drugs into our country Other about Christmas tree and how "its not Arab tree, it's not Hanukkah tree, its Christmas tree" and everyone should be celebrating it, etc etc etc... I went off on that too, problem is, i pressed reply all and her parents got it too and of her dumb/racist family. they don't talk to me much anymore... Good... Less racist idiots i have to hangout with. Don't know, but usually these mass-forwarding is either bigotry or just dumb false info. Either way it does more harm then anything.
Almost every forwarded email falls into one of these categories: - Political extremism - Religious extremism - Sophomoric (at best) humor - Scams - Rumors that should have been researched and debunked before being forwarded It's just the latest version of the "death Corvette" story.
Yeah, that's pretty much him in a nutshell. At least he doesn't send me those "pass this on or bad things will happen" emails. Or the save this sick person/pet by passing on this email to 10 people. That's my brothers job. I sent out this responds to those:
Actually, as long as your cell can 'see' a tower, 911 WILL work on a US cellphone, even if you don't have a 'working' phone or time on a prepaid. I still hate forwarded spam.
Very true. One former co-worker used to send this stuff all the time. I kept sending him the appropriate snopes.com link in reply. Finally, I sent him the snopes link and a message that was something like, "Look, , this stuff is bogus. Here are some clues to it being fake. Notice that it says 'Springfield Police Department' but doesn't say what state, and the PD's supposed phone number has no area code. There are dates mentioned with no year. The supposed photo of the missing child is originally from a Sears catalog. These all shout 'FAKE!'" His reply was, "Sorry, I just figure you can't be too careful." So I wrote back "Yes, you can be too careful." He finally caught on. Man, I'm keeping that elephant story just for that purpose that Chunk-O-Funk suggested. That's beautiful.