There are quite 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 what you can do with it:
FIRST
Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide 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. This number 112 can be dialled 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 information may come in handy someday. If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, just call someone at home and ask them to get your spare key and their mobile phone. Then hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at home press the unlock button on the spare key, holding it near their mobile phone. Your car will unlock and saves someone from having to drive your keys to you.
Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away but if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' key or your car, you can unlock the doors (or the boot/trunk).
Postcript: It works well! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'
THIRD
Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To reactivate, press the keys *3370# and y our mobile will restart with this reserve and will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you next recharge your mobile.
FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. If your phone is stolen you can telephone your service provider by landline 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 it or sell it either! If everybody did this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
FIFTH
ATM - PIN Number Reversal - Good to Know
If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your PIN # in reverse . For example, if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. The ATM system recognizes that your PIN number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested but, unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to the location.
This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it.
POSTSCRIPT May 20th, 2010.
My thanks to a blogger called Charlie who notified me that Item 5 above is totally false. Please read the story as verified by SNOPES by copying this link into your browser: http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
3 comments:
Sorry but you have been had by yet another crap round robin email. You may want to check out:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/cellphones.asp
and
http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
I'm sorry to say that all but one of these are bogus.
1. Yes, this is true
2. Hell no, this has no technical way of working as the phone cannot forward on the _radio_ signal that is used by the fob.
3. On some nokia phones this has the effect of boosting the signal but drains the battery faster - on all other phones this has no effect.
4. You need to have a note of your IMEI number (in a safe place at home) so if your phone is stolen you can then have it disabled.
5. This is complete bull. It was an idea, but rejected, several times.
Please check things on sites like snopes before passing them on.
Dear Charlie & Mike, I am most grateful to both of you for putting me right on this posting. I never had any intention of misleading anyone and took the circulation on face value. You are quite right in saying that I should have attempted to verify it with Snopes before publishing it on my blog. I apologise to anyone who may have been taken in by the unsubstantiated claims. I will be much more sceptical of any similar such circulars I come across on the Internet in future. Kind Regards, David, aka Old Plod of Plympton.
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