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April 14th, 2007   #1
bulldogg
 
 

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From the "Too Stupid To Live" files Pakistan brings us this...

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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 rumour 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 centres 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 rumours are completely baseless. They do not make any sense in technological terms."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/...971395644.html

I suddenly feel like Einstein.


"The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental." - John Steinbeck
 
April 14th, 2007   #2
Rob Henderson
 
 
Are you KIDDING me?! Wow...Some people really are that gullible...
 
April 15th, 2007   #3
5.56X45mm
 
 
That is what happens when your culture makes you think that the world is flat and that you should live in a cave.
 
April 15th, 2007   #4
Team Infidel
 
 
hehe... that's just gulible....


 
April 15th, 2007   #5
senojekips
 
 
It True!!!!..... believe me.

I was killed last night after getting a virus from my phone.


"I am totally responsible for what I write,... however I cannot be held responsible for your complete inability to understand"

 
April 15th, 2007   #6
Rob Henderson
 
 
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Originally Posted by senojekips
It True!!!!..... believe me.

I was killed last night after getting a virus from my phone.
Out of body experience?
 
April 16th, 2007   #7
tomtom22
 
 
Yeah, it's true.
I saw Chicken Little, and he said the sky is falling.
Pass it on.


"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations
 
April 16th, 2007   #8
Rob Henderson
 
 
^^^ :O...NO WAY! Get the canned goods and water honey!
 



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