Shocked & Appalled

Random rants

3/10/2009

Spam or scam?

So over the weekend, I got some bizarro texts on my phone. A string of three messages announcing the "sad news" that the prime minister of Zimbabwe had been in a car accident and his wife had been killed. LawyerMan and I were like "huh that's odd," I deleted them, and didn't think about it again until I picked up the paper the next day and saw that the PM had, in fact, been in a car accident, and his wife was killed.

Then a day later, I got another text, addressed to someone named "Simba" talking about the accident and the effect on the Zimbabwe political scene and stock market.

So now I'm wondering if I just got a phone number that used to belong to Simba from Zimbabwe, or if this is some elaborate scam.

Any thoughts?