You are perpetuating a hoax warning. Please stop.

The warning that you have received, about pressing 90#, is a hoax message that circulates over electronic mail, faxes, and by word of mouth.


Please do not send on to anyone these hoax messages about dialling 90# on the telephone. If you have already sent the warning on to someone, send them a follow up message (pointing to this page if you like) explaining to them that it is actually a hoax and that they should not forward the hoax to people in their turn.

The below mentioned email / sms is a hoax.
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Please Do Not Dial This When Asked, Please circulate URGENTLY. New Trick
of Muslim Terrorists to Frame Innocent People!!

If you receive a phone call on your Mobile from any person saying that
they are checking your mobile line, and you have to press #90 or #09or any
other number. End this call immediately without pressing any numbers.
Friends there is a fraud company using a device that once you press #90 or
#09they can access your SIM card and make calls at your expense. Forward
this message to as many friends as u can, to stop it. This information has
been confirmed by both Motorola and Nokia. There are over 3 million
affected mobile phones. You can check this news at CNN web site also.

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The original scam doesn't work outside of the U.S. anyway. It certainly wouldn't work in the U.K. for example.

As mentioned above, the original scam only applied in the United States. What is perhaps most ironic is that in the U.K., as everyone who has ever used a telephone should well know, 0 is not the code for the operator and # is not a valid telephone digit. Even if you had the right type of PABX in the U.K., and it had been misconfigured in exactly the right way, and even if you dialled the correct sequence from the original scam (i.e. with Recall), you would just connect the scam artist to the "number unobtainable" tone, which wouldn't be of much use to them.
People who circulate this hoax in the U.K. have obviously not thought about what they are reading before blithely forwarding it to other people. (Ironically, some people in the U.K. circulate variants of the hoax that talk about "AT&T Service Technicians". They obviously didn't stop and think about what they were reading at all.)