BBC NEWS | Africa | Panic at Nigerian 'killer calls'

Tú número de celular puede ser mortal...


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.

Como me acorde de esta cita de movietalks leyendo el artículo:




Dune (1984)

"My name is a killing word."
Kyle MacLachlan como Paul


y estoy seguro que eso de el "apretón" de manos que desaparece organos sexuales tambien tiene algo que ver con Dunas...

BBC NEWS | Africa | Panic at Nigerian 'killer calls'

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