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Nigeria: A new rumour has appeared - that answering phone calls from certain numbers will cause you to drop dead instantly.
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.
Panic at Nigerian 'killer calls' - BBC News, 19th July 2004.
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1: Posted by: Red Wolf | July 23, 2004 12:39 AM
It seems that someone in Nigeria managed to download a copy of The Ring and ran a phone variant on it.
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