Pakistan: Deadly 'Phone Virus' Threat Causes Panic

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via ComputerWorld (Reuters).

[snip]

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.

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More:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art
icleId=9016500

Happy Friday the 13th.

Enjoy. :-)

- - ferg

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