Word spread like wildfire in Lampang recently that anyone receiving calls from certain phone numbers would die instantly.
The numbers, all starting with (08) 33, were handed out by the teachers and matched the ones posted at a grocery store.
"A villager, who heard the rumour while working in another district, returned to warn the locals about it. This why he posted the numbers here," the grocery owner Pranom Juajan said.
Meanwhile, chairman of the tambon Hua Muang administrative organisation said Chamnan Liabloke said such rumours were spreading in several other districts as well. However, he added, there were no records of anybody dying in a mysterious manner recently.
Wimonnart Chivasakulyong, an official from Advanced Info Service, said all these numbers were pre-paid and registered with her company. She added that credit was added to two of the three numbers six months ago.
"The credit added was just Bt30 and Bt50," she said, explaining that the third number registered in November did not have any credit added recently.
