Trust me, they'd fail dismally to get anything either in my name, or relating to this address.
They'd get laughed at.
Of course it's not the only way they get the info. But people being flippant with their info certainly does not help. It's a snowball effect, your data might get 1 person hit with a scam, that may then snowball on to 10 others, and so on. Many of those resulting victims won't even know you. So your last comment is completely useless.You really feel this is the only way they get these numbers/email addresses
I stopped donating the tax thing on entry to places because of them wanting my phone number/email address
as well as home address, this was often followed by a rise in spam mails and calls, seems they no longer need
them, wonder why
If people feel I am giving away info they can always ask to removed from my contact list
Agh!!!! shades of Marvin eh
Lee Marvin,Hank Marvin or Marvin Medium ?Agh!!!! shades of Marvin eh
I recon the Kaboom belongs in the World War Three thread over in the whinge forum..
I recon the Kaboom belongs in the World War Three thread over in the whinge forum..
I know,I was just being obtuse.I was thinking of Marvin the paranoid android on/in HHGTTG, so long and thanks for all the fish said the dolphins as they left planet earth
I have the Vodafone Smart Ultra 6.
I know it's Chinese, no idea who makes it, but I have had it a year now and think it's brilliant.
I was a Samsung fan for a long time, but absolutely no complaints over this phone other than the camera, and well, I have cameras for that.
I really don't care, to be honest.
It really doesn't surprise me, Ive mentioned it on here before and just got laughed away. People have no idea what their devices do, or what those 'free' tools to unlock and root their phone inject in the operating system, or what those free games do, or downloaded copy of operating system, etc. Good secure processes and procedures to check within companies cost money, it all does, these things don't come free and cheap unless they can be monitized in a different way.
Well that's curious, twice in two days, my HTC one has said there is a voice mail message ( via the little symbol in the header bar)
Exactly, I never access my bank, paypal, credit card, or anything remotely to do with finance, or personal details, from my phone.
I really don't care who hacks my phone, I rarely use for anything but phone calls and the odd text message.
No bank account details on it and very rarely access the internet so not a lot for them to find, but hey if they
have nothing better to do
Not that mine are on YOUR phone, but I do care that my friends done share my contact details with strangers. When I give "you" my contact details I expect you to keep them safe.I really don't care who hacks my phone, I rarely use for anything but phone calls and the odd text message.
No bank account details on it and very rarely access the internet so not a lot for them to find, but hey if they
have nothing better to do
To be fair this has nothing to do with what is going on here with cheap android phones. Nothing at all.
It is difficult to be certain that not all phones are the same I do agree. One thing is certain though that when you go for the bottom end cost wise and expect all the features something has to give. Everything cost money along the line, it isn't merely component cost, but where the components are sourced, how they are traced, where the operating system comes from, whether the people have the skills for it to develop/tailor it to that phone, and so on and on and on. I don't often say it, but likely if you do want one of those very cheap Chinese phones you are and you aren't technically skilled yourself, you are best to go with one of the mainstream carriers who put on their own build. Often it is limiting and reduces the amount of updates but at least it's been tested at a low level. So something like what Vodafone does with the smart ultra or whatever it is called and I think Ruth has got one.
