First they came for the bees....Rumours swept through Afghanistan on Monday that a deadly virus was being spread by mobile telephone calls, and government officials scrambled to reassure the public the talk was rubbish.
Many worried Afghan mobile phone users called family and friends, warning them not to answer calls from strange numbers. Some people said they had heard that several people had been killed by the mystery virus in Kabul at the weekend. "Don't answer any strange number because it contains a virus that will kill you," said Ahmad Fawad, a shop owner in Kabul.
Remember all those phones these guys were buying? Now we know: they loaded them up with virus and and some special programming and resold them locally.
Hello? Hello? This is Mahmood. Heh Heh. Aieee!