Pakistan: Deadly 'Phone Virus' Threat Causes Panic
A Reuters newswire article, via ComputerWorld, reports that:
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.More here.
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.
posted by Fergie @ 4/13/2007 09:06:00 AM
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