How to Upload an Explosive Phone Virus
A video has been doing rounds on social media the last few years showing a phone exploding after receiving a call from a the number '777888999'. The video also consists of what seems like footage from a infirmary, where a male child with a bloody jaw is lying on a stretcher, and a clipped version of ABP Live video. The video ends with a man saying that he received a telephone call from 777888999 simply he did not respond as he knew what could happen. The merits being shared with it says that the number has virus in information technology and causes phones to blast when the call is received.
A user uploaded this video on the Alt News app to check the veracity of the merits.
Fact-check
The video is a role of a hoax that has travelled through time simply to become more elaborate with the crux of the message remaining unchanged. However, conscientious analysis of the claims raised via the clip is enough to debunk the simulated rumour.
1. The number '777888999' is a 9-digit number. Mobile phone numbers in Bharat consist of 10 digits. The call also couldn't have been from an international number because it does not have a country lawmaking.
2. If one performs a keyword search of the video on YouTube, one finds that it has been circulated using varied claims like the man's rima oris exploded due to an due east-cigarette.
3. Alt News broke down the video into multiple frames using InVID and reverse-searched an epitome of the prune showing a human with a bloody jaw. The clip was debunked by Brazilian fact-checking website E-Farsas in 2016. E-Farsas claimed that the human was really trying to commit suicide by placing an explosive in his oral cavity. The website claimed that the incident took place in 2014. Alt News could not independently confirm the same as the sources used by E-Farsas are no longer attainable.
4. We found that the ABP Alive prune used in the video was part of a December 2016 Viral Sach broadcast where the news channel was non reporting on the "virus" but debunking the hoax. The length of the complete broadcast is v minutes and ABP Live starts the fact-check after 2:forty minutes into the programme. This part has been clipped out and simply the portion where ABP Live talks virtually the message warning people to not receive calls from '777888999' has been included in the video. This was an endeavour to mislead social media users into believing that the "expiry number" is real since information technology has been reported in the media.
A clip from the video is juxtaposed with the original ABP Alive video below to prove the similarities.
Thus, an over four-minute video was manufactured by morphing bits and pieces from different videos to make a faux claim that cell phones were exploding upon receiving a call from the number '777888999'
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