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Nigerian mobile phone users have been anxiously checking who is calling them before answering them in recent days.
A rumour has spread rapidly in the commercial capital, Lagos, that if one answers calls from certain "killer numbers" then one will die immediately.
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.
The BBC's reporter in Lagos, Sola Odunfa, says that the current scare story is reminiscent of a rumour that spread a few years ago that a handshake could cause sexual organs to disappear.
That rumour turned to tragedy as mobs rounded on people accused of making organs disappear.
Despite the massive public interest, no-one was found to have lost their organs.
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Posted: 2004-07-21 01:21:34
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@axxxr according your 'halloween mood' tonight for a nigerian the best blame would be: may u get a call on a nokia!
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Posted: 2004-07-21 01:26:06
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I've started by switching all my nokia's off....just in case!
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Posted: 2004-07-21 01:28:30
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"Hi, this is Queen Umokele and I'm calling because my father died and he has left a 15,000,000 dollar inheritance..."
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Posted: 2004-07-21 01:32:00
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Posted: 2004-07-21 01:33:30
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@axxxr where do u get these news from? Disney channel?
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Posted: 2004-07-21 01:35:05
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shaman batesie will put a spell on all nokia's with a zero in the model number.....
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Posted: 2004-07-21 01:39:06
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This bit of news was posted on the BBC news site...here's the link again below.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3906607.stm
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Posted: 2004-07-21 01:39:45
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