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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The world has gone mad!
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!!!!!!
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