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This is just priceless. I mean seriously how retarded can an entire nation be!!!

Mobile phone operators in Pakistan & Afganistan have been deluged with calls from concerned users after they received a hoax message claiming a “killer virus” was being transmitted via their handsets. Kabul shop owner Ahmad Fawad advises: “Don’t answer any strange number because it contains a virus that will kill you.”

The message claimed that 20 people had already succumbed to the deadly plague, and proved so effective that some mosques in Karachi began advising would-be victims to “be aware of God’s wrath”, Reuters reports.

Farah Hussain, a spokeswoman for Warid Telecom, said the company’s customer service centres have been “inundated with panicky subscribers inquiring about the so-called virus”.

Operators issued a joint statement aimed at calming nerves, which explained: “These rumours are completely baseless. They do not make any sense in technological terms.”