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"The Egyptian government has sought to dispel rumours that a mobile phone text message "from unknown foreign quarters" is spreading around the country and killing those who receive it.
The extraordinary move by Egypt's health and interior ministries follows press reports that an SMS containing a special combination of numbers killed a man in the town of Mallawi south of Cairo.
"He died vomiting blood,followed by stroke, shortly after he received a message from an unknownphone number," the Egyptian Gazette reported on Wednesday."
I'm familiar with the 'real'* suggestive power of 'Juju/bhanamati/hoodoo/voodoo' and the numerous other terms for the phenomenon. This seems to be a more contemporary spin on the practice.
Add in a healthy dose of stage management thrown in no doubt and an outbreak of mass hysteria often follows!
* I say real because I know a few folk who still believe this stuff - to the point where it can cause psychosomatic symptoms, and of course there's no shortage of charlatans to prey on them.
Egypt tries to hang up on killer SMS rumours - Yahoo! News UK
The extraordinary move by Egypt's health and interior ministries follows press reports that an SMS containing a special combination of numbers killed a man in the town of Mallawi south of Cairo.
"He died vomiting blood,followed by stroke, shortly after he received a message from an unknownphone number," the Egyptian Gazette reported on Wednesday."
I'm familiar with the 'real'* suggestive power of 'Juju/bhanamati/hoodoo/voodoo' and the numerous other terms for the phenomenon. This seems to be a more contemporary spin on the practice.
Add in a healthy dose of stage management thrown in no doubt and an outbreak of mass hysteria often follows!
* I say real because I know a few folk who still believe this stuff - to the point where it can cause psychosomatic symptoms, and of course there's no shortage of charlatans to prey on them.
Egypt tries to hang up on killer SMS rumours - Yahoo! News UK