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WARNING! Deadly Phone Virus!!!
    #7584831 - 11/01/07 05:20 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Mobile service providers in Pakistan have been inundated by calls from subscribers worried by a prank message that they could die of a deadly virus being transmitted via their phones.

The rumor was so effective that some mosques in the country’s biggest city, Karachi, made announcements that people were being killed by a mobile virus and they should be aware of God’s wrath.

In a prank reminiscent of the plot in the hit Hollywood movie “The Ring” in which people die within a week after watching a video, the prankster warned users that a deadly virus transmitted through phones had killed 20 people.

There are more than 52 million mobile users among 160 million people in Pakistan.

Farah Hussain, a spokeswoman for Warid Telecom, said that their customer service centers had been inundated with panicky subscribers inquiring about the so-called virus.

The cellular operators moved to calm down subscribers and said in a joint statement: “These rumors are completely baseless. They do not make any sense in technological terms.”

wastednews.com


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Re: WARNING! Deadly Phone Virus!!! [Re: Diploid]
    #7584848 - 11/01/07 05:22 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

:lol:  :shake:


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Re: WARNING! Deadly Phone Virus!!! [Re: Diploid]
    #7584865 - 11/01/07 05:25 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

thank god it only kills pakistani's


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