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Pakistan: Deadly 'Phone Virus' Threat Causes Panic
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:14:52 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. [snip] More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art icleId=9016500 Happy Friday the 13th. Enjoy. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.0 (Build 214) wj8DBQFGH6x1q1pz9mNUZTMRAiRMAJ9PYj5FmPsPDSVy3t6PAFkna15GTACgw3QH J990VjukB/oPbtSdhXSeUAc= =LaOw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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