‘Devil Calls’ Cause Exploding Phones

You use a MAC?! Why buy a Mac? It's like buying a car that's compatible with only 10% of the roads. Jokes aside, even though MacOS has its roots as a Unix system, it's by no means secure.

The hardcore use Linux 😛

My believe is Macs are good for something (I use a Mac, a few Windows box and a few more Linux boxes, and they all have their strong and weak points. In my Mac's case, video and photo editing are way above my Windows PCs). In any case, I think I can speculate how this guy get wierd 11-14 digit numbers. See, when you call a phone number through IDD from a roaming cellphone, telcos (at least, those over here) would send a bogus caller ID instead of the real one. I tried it once. My cousin from Australia was over and his mom brought her phone over (She was on Optus Australia) and it was on roaming. I got my cousin to place a call to my phone (Which is on DiGi Malaysia) from theirs. My phone displayed a strange longer-than-usual number instead of their number (I think it was around 12-14 digits instead of the usual 10). Of course, she wasn't too happy when she found out that I made my cousin use her phone to call IDD while roaming to my phone although I didn't answer it. I tried calling the number back and was told that the number is non-existant. I'm thinking the case there was that some pranksters could've brought in phones from a neighbouring country and use it to prank the locals.

My phone and a lot of my friends cell phones get these random calls from a number 111-111-1111 and they call repeatedly but nothing is ever there. I've never quite figured it out. Sometimes I also get calls from a 3 digit number... who knows, maybe it is the devil! hahaha I'll belive it when I get a call from 666 lol

It might be plausible that some kind of transmission could disable your phone, but I don't see how anything could make a phone explode, because telephones don't contain any explosives. Unless people think that secret assassins may have planted tiny bombs in their phones, and then triggered them with phone calls ...

File this one under Robot Zionist Penis-Melting Combs.

Secret assassins? Tiny bombs? Triggered with calls?
Holy crap I've got to go!
*runs to infiltrate Jamster

We could only hope some story comes along to decrease cell phone use.

"Unless people think that secret assassins may have planted tiny bombs in their phones, and then triggered them with phone calls ..." - Big Gary

Israel's Mossad did exactly this a few years ago with an Hamas leader.

Hmm, and remember the spontaniously exploding Nokia's a few years ago? That was the battery exploding, spontaniously.

I dunno, technically perhaps you could transmit a signal through a phonecal at the resonance frequency of the cellphone's battery...kaboom!

But I agree with Alex that it is probably bogus.

I was a bit shocked by the way about your attitude to anti-virus software, Alex. True, on a Mac virusses are less a problem, but anyone on a PC without anti-virus software is simply an idiot who should not be allowed free on the internet.

OUCH! Yeah, AV protection is essential. But no need to call them an idiot. You only do that once they're infected and start blaming everyone now that their Cheese porn won't load.

"Almost the exact same"??? Not to be a pedant, but if there is an exact match the phrase is either "the same," or, though redundant but for emphasis, "exactly the same." If there is not an exact match "almost the same" is the right phrase. "Almost the exact same" is right up there with "the sole purposes of ___ were."

Maybe not as important as AV software, but still....

"Somehow it travelled from Nigeria to India."

Well, you see, Nigeria and India are both part of "abroad", which is all joined up, and we poor savages who live in it move around and speak to each other, though admittedly we have to rely on old tin cans joined with taut string if we want to talk over long distances. (I am writing this post on a hand-cranked adding machine.)

Mind you, Abroad is a dangerous place. For more information, have a look at http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1761082&page=1

Incidentally, instead of being quelled, the hoax/rumour has spread to even further reaches of the country.
In the north-eastern parts, where my parents reside, people are swearing that they know someone who has actually died due to one of these "explosions".
My dad calls me up this morning asking me if that's a possiblity. I don't exactly work on handheld devices, but as someone has already pointed it out, phones do not contain explosives, hence even if there were to be a miniscule explosion due to faulty circuitry, it could never be fatal.
But the power of rumours cannot be under-estimated, and hence dad tells me he's switching over to the trusty landline until it's proven that cell phones are "safe" for normal usage. Duh!!

well i have also heard about this thing .it was really shocking even one of my friends brother who worked asc doctor in SKIMS SRINAGAR had told that he had received a patient in hospital and warned that a case had been brought in SKIMS in which there were injuries on one persops face due to mobile phone explodend which had caused severe damage on his face

i just received a life threatening phone call from an unavailable number.. telling me that my family did this to them and that i only had 5 hours left to live. i was hysterical, and started to cry.. so i called all my closest friends and they all denied any knowledge about the random phone call, then the number 666 beeped in and called me saying they were the devil and they were going to kill me. i couldnt stop crying and then my friends said they received phone calls from the same number last night. and nothing happened. im so freaked out.

:lol: there is nothing, just rumor to counter other romuor, like in my country, indonesia, it rumor start issued when our president give sinyal to increase premium & solar price.

ha ha ha, india, ha ha ha!

Just rumors guys.

I don't exactly work on handheld devices, but as someone has already pointed it out, phones do not contain explosives, hence even if there were to be a miniscule explosion due to faulty circuitry, it could never be fatal

technically perhaps you could transmit a signal through a phonecal at the resonance frequency of the cellphone's battery..