This happened to a friend of mine. He says:

I cannot stop myself from sharing this with all of you.

It all started when I received a call from someone claiming that he was from my mobile service provider and he asked me to shutdown my phone for 2 hours for 3G update to take place.

As I was rushing for a meeting, I did not question and shutdown my cell phone. After 45 minutes I felt very suspicious since the caller did not even introduce his name.
I quickly turned on my cell phone and I saw several missed calls from my family members and the others were from the number that had called me earlier - 3954380. I called my parents and I was shocked that they sounded very worried asking me whether I am safe.

My parents told me that they had received a call from someone claiming that they had me with them and asking for money to let me free.

The call was so real and my parents even heard 'my voice' crying out loud asking for help.
My parent was at the bank waiting for next call to proceed for money transfer.

I told my parents that I am safe and asked them to lodge a police report.
Right after that I received another call from the guy asking me to shutdown my cell phone for another 1 hour which I refused to do and hung up.

They keep calling my cell phone until the battery had run down.
I myself lodged a police report and I was informed by the officer that there were many such scams reported.
MOST of the cases reported that the victim had already transferred the money! And it is impossible to get back the money.

Be careful to prevent this kind of scam!!! Those guys are so professional and very convincing during calls.

If you are asked to shut down your cell phone for updates by the service provider,

ASK AROUND! Your family or friends might receive the same call.

Be Safe and Stay Alert! Please pass around to your family and friends !!!

Nice and educative post, but wrong section.

Another bbb. Na wah o! Blackberry brodcast wont let us be, always comin out wit crappy stories. Jst cook up stories for the sake of broadcast.

That is why u need two fone or line

9ja

This is not the right section for this topic. And i also doubt the credibility of this story. However, if it really happened, then someone much familiar with the family members must have done this. Like, how could they have gotten his phone number and that of his family members? Someone is obviously playing a fast one on him

Fake News!!!
How can you see missed calls after switching on a fone......was any call connected in d 1st place which lead to missed call.

Exponental: Fake News!!!
How can you see missed calls after switching on a fone......was any call connected in d 1st place which lead to missed call.

hmm! You guess is as good as mine.I only know of receiving sms when you switch on your phone.this story might be fake though but we need to watch out in case something like this happens

Igboron san ju ebo ruru lo!

Exponental: Fake News!!!
How can you see missed calls after switching on a fone......was any call connected in d 1st place which lead to missed call.

Etisalat normally sends an sms of the people that called you when your phone was off.

Exponental: Fake News!!!
How can you see missed calls after switching on a fone......was any call connected in d 1st place which lead to missed call.

its up 2 u 2 decide weda 2 make use of it or nt,pass d info or nt.i ve done my part,its left 4 u.so that if it hapens 2 u 2moro,u wunt say i dint warn u.