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* Afghanistan succumbs to killer virus hoax

Anonymous Coward

Reminds me of 

that deadly joke from Monthy Python ...

Robert Ramsay

...or possibly... 

Stephen King's new bestseller "Cell"?

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Sean Healey

...maybe even... 

'The Ring'

- which features a video which if watched condemns you to die 7 days later.

Gordon Fecyk

Americans were no better ten years ago. Can you say, "Good Times?" 

Such (short) memories....

Anonymous Coward

Hit back when you can! 

For some time now I've been deliberately chatting politely to those Indian idiots who phone out of the blue and offer me a free mobile phone. You know, the sometimes barely comprehensible nutters, they usually ring in the late afternoon or evening and demand to know if I have a mobile and how much do I spend per month/week...

I've been introducing into the conversation a brief reference to a story on BBC radio 4 about a 'killer virus' in Indian call centres, and asking if the person ringing has noticed many of their colleagues away sick currently.

It beats just shouting a F**K OFF and putting the phone down, and I DO hope its getting through to them :-)

P.

Tom

Good Times 

Good Times was supposed to kill your computer, not kill you. From the way this story is written it suggests people don't think their phone will get a deadly virus, but that they themselves will.

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