Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SM/RD)

Udupi, Jun.21: An SMS, which is being forwarded by some unknown mobile owners around here during the past few days, has created a sense of fear among the mobile users.

The message, which proved to be a hoax, reads thus: “Do not pick calls from given numbers – 98883 08001, 93160 48121, 98762 66211, 98888 54137, 98767 15587, these numbers are displayed in red and calls from these cause brain haemorrhage because of very frequency.  Twentyseven persons have died just on receiving call from these numbers- watch Aaj Tak, DD news and IBN 7.”

After the SMS got widely circulated across the region, rumours began making rounds that, two persons from Kaup and Belapu near here, died after they received the calls made from these mobile numbers.

In a latest development, the same SMS is being forwarded with further mischief adde to the original SMS.  It has created such a panic that some of the mobile users, especially women, who were expecting calls from abroad, kept their handset switched off because of the scare.

Many right-thinking citizens call this a brainwork of some trouble-mongers.  Moreover, those who tried to call the numbers mentioned in the list got the response "Please check the number you have dialled”.