Wondering how many of you have received it already on your BBM!
“This official message comes from the desk of Ana L. Retentive, head of communications at RIM:
I regret to inform you that a virus has been sent out on all BlackBerry smartphones today, the 15th day of August in the year 2010. We are working feverishly to correct this problem, but we require your help. Broadcast this message to all your BlackBerry messenger contacts so we will be able to identify your smartphone by its pin and debug it immediately. If you do not broadcast this message within 24 hours, your phone will be shut off, due to the deadly nature of this virus. You will not be compensated, for you were warned.”
Yes! This is another Hoax message. I wonder why RIM actually requires our BB pin to fix this hole when they hold all the information about each and every Blackberry in this world!
I found couple of interesting links related to this hoax message!
http://franarexic.com/2010/08/15/the-truth-about-ana-l-retentive/
So before you boradcast such messages in your Email or BBM or any media make sure it is not a fake news by doing a simple search in Google!
The name of the RIM employee a giveaway.
i too received such horrible sms.. how to block them?
I wonder who wasted money by texting:) Other than ignoring you cant block it..
is there no app/tool to block unwanted sms in blackberry ??
@ Sanjay there are apps for that(callsblocker) you can block phone numbers and BB pins. But Blackberry app does n’t have an intelligence to block contents according to the data coming in.