Phone-based virus transmission prank nets Pakistanis
It appears that some wireless customers in Pakistan were recently worried that they may die due to a virus transmitted via their phones. What did they do in response? For starters, the authorities were inundated with concerned Pakistani phone owners and even some Karachi-area mosques made public announcements that there was indeed a killer mobile virus on the loose. We're not talking a software operating system virus here, but a virus that magically jumps from a person to person using a phone handset (through long-distance airwaves?). Pakistani authorities dismissed the large-scale prank by stating that "They (rumors) do not make any sense in technological terms." We agree.[Via textually.org, image via How Stuff Works]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Anam @ Apr 17th 2007 12:54AM
This is stupid and freaky !
Mehboob @ Apr 17th 2007 3:18AM
Geo the number one news channel, started this rumor by saying it is confirmed that people are dieing because of this virus. I got two three sms from friend not to attend call from XXXXXXX number, otherwise you will die....
radiationman @ Apr 17th 2007 9:31PM
If I remember correctly, this was the plot of some Stephen King novel. Something he wrote two years or so ago, and was only available online.
MB @ Apr 18th 2007 4:08PM
Our blog Karachi metroblog had a detail post on it.
http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives/2007/04/mobile_virus_ho.phtml