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Hoax email attempts a different kind of DoS

Dec 7, 2003 1:02PM PST

A hoax email doing the rounds appears to be attempting a different kind of denial of service - flooding the telephone number of a police force in the UK with unnecessary calls, the anti-virus firm Sophos says.

The email claims that

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