Nigerian Killer Calls
Written by Haitham Sabbah on 20. July 2004, 0015hrs // Part of Haitham Sabbah's adventure in Too Much Free Time // Other posts by Haitham Sabbah
Mobile phone use has taken off in Nigeria in recent years Nigerian mobile phone users have been anxiously checking who is calling them before answering them in recent days.
A rumour has spread rapidly in the commercial capital, Lagos, that if one answers calls from certain “killer numbers” then one will die immediately.
A BBC reporter says experts and mobile phone operators have been reassuring the public via the media that death cannot result from receiving a call.
He says that in such a superstitious country unfounded rumours are common.
A list of alleged killer numbers has been circulated but no-one is reported to have died from answering the phone.
The BBC’s reporter in Lagos, Sola Odunfa, says that the current scare story is reminiscent of a rumour that spread a few years ago that a handshake could cause sexual organs to disappear.
That rumour turned to tragedy as mobs rounded on people accused of making organs disappear.
Despite the massive public interest, no-one was found to have lost their organs.
Source: BBC
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July 20th, 2004 at 10:43 am
The world has gone mad!
September 4th, 2004 at 8:33 am
[...] In a story bizarrely reminiscent of Japanese cult horror flick The Ring, a rumour has washed through Lagos, Nigeria that, if you accept a call on your mobil [...]
February 17th, 2008 at 3:18 am
what are those numbers? I would love to harrass the niggerian spammers to death with them.
CorpMERICA dictator hitler-bush, and dickhead haliburton-cheney don’t do shit to combat niggerian spam because they love them for the oil.
I would love to blow up an internet cafe in lagos, and kill 1000s of spammers, cut there arms and penis off, and stab them repeatly and nail them to a cross, pour gasoline on them and burn baby burn!!!!!!