Deadly Virus Spread by Mobile Phones

Apparently there is a deadly virus that spreads from Muslim to Muslim because of the mobile phones, and its sweeping Pakistan right now and causing a panic.  Even the Imams in the Mosques are warning people that this virus is the wrath of Allah because they don’t kneel low enough, face the right direction and pray hard enough.

From Reuters here:

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.

The prankster warned users that a deadly virus transmitted through phones had killed 20 people.

Farah Hussain, a spokeswoman for Warid Telecom, said that their customer service centers had been inundated with panicky subscribers inquiring about the so-called virus.  The cellular operators moved to calm down subscribers and said in a joint statement: “These rumors are completely baseless. They do not make any sense in technological terms.”

These people barely understand cellphone technology and yet, they have the Bomb.  Brrr.