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Message warns recipients that cell phone numbers are set to be released to telemarketing companies this month and that consumers will be charged for incoming calls from these companies.

Message circulating via SMS, social media and email warns you not to return missed calls from numbers starting with +375 or +371 because you will be charged between $15 and $30 for each returned call and your contact list and financial information will be instantly stolen from your phone.

Message warns shoppers to always check their receipts before leaving the check-out because people are being caught out by a scam in which unscrupulous cashiers add unauthorized cash back requests to transactions.

Various messages circulating on Facebook advise users to never click on bit.ly links because they all point to viruses, rogue applications or malicious websites.

Circulating message features a photograph depicting a newspaper headline that screams “Christmas is banned: IT Offends Muslims”.

Circulating message claims to show recipients how to detect fake $50 Australian Banknotes. The message suggests that fake notes can be determined by a missing name under a portrait and by the order of signatures.

Emailed collection of cancer related tips and information claims to originate from world-renowned medical research facility, Johns Hopkins.

Messages warn that a form of strawberry coloured and scented methamphetamine dubbed ‘Strawberry Quick’ is being distributed to school children.