Mobile phone monkey business strikes at another zoo

# The monkeys stand for honesty, giraffes are insincere, and the elephants are kindly but they’re dumb  #

First it was Dublin, then Houston, and I’ve heard rumours about Milwaukee too. Now, a zoo in Brownsville, Texas, has been on the wrong end of a bizarre mobile phone spam campaign that has resulted in hundreds of people flooding its switchboard.

The Gladys Porter Zoo was reported to have been thrown into chaos last week after cryptic SMS text messages were sent to thousands of people saying things like

• Call now someone is looking for you.
• Call now and we will settle this.

and telling them to call a number.. the number of the Gladys Porter Zoo…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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