If you are mobile phone user, then there are good chances that you must have received multiple SMSes regarding Acid Rain, such as:
"A nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, exploded at 4.30am today. If it rains tomorrow or later, don’t go outside. If you are outside, be sure that you have rain protectors. It’s acid rain. Don’t let it touch you. You may burn your skin, lose your hair or have cancer. Please pass, stay safe and remind everyone you know."
So what this Acid Rain and the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan has to do with forward messages in Pakistan?
It might look a nonsense to you, but the fact is that these forwarded messages were spread in Malaysia and Philippines and somehow one of such message hit Pakistan to make its way to every mobile subscriber in the country.
Be Informed:
There is no such thing known as Acid Rain, and this is not happening anywhere, at least in Pakistan. In fact, authorities in Philippines and Malaysia have actually officially clarified that these chain messages are just a hoax and nothing more.
Forwarding an SMS (Containing Information) is a SIN
We have written in past that forwarding an SMS without verification is a SIN as per various Islamic scholars.
They say that forwarding an SMS (which contains information) without verification is just like you are lying to the recipient.
Sending forward jokes/quotations is fine.
Who Gets Benefited of these SMS Chains:
Just in case if you don’t know, these forward messages are usually spread by those VAS providers who develop and then drive these messages into masses.
So these companies must be aware of the fact that they are doing an illegal activity by spreading the fake/altered information.
We know that our authorities are not capable enough of capping all these fraudulent people, but as an individual we can can play our role by not forwarding messages without verification.
Remember:
If there is an emergency, or something which is worth communicating, your loved ones are going to call you. They won’t spread such severe information (such as Acid Rain) as an SMS.
Thanks to Samz for tipping us on this.
hmm. I got an sms in this regard and deleted it.
lol
Good post… but acid rain does exist but nuclear radiations have nothing to do with that…
Acid Rain rains everytime when it rains after a long break. It is caused by accumulated Carbon Monooxide in the Air due to pollution. That’s it!!!
Yes, I wanted to point out the same thing. Acid rain is a real phenomenon.
You know what’s really bad about it? Power plants running on coal are responsible for it, and people still want to mine Thar coal.
Asad i totally agreed with you…
I also received this message i just reply “Stupid” to my friend :)
thank God someone pointed this out. Getting these stupid msgs for 2 days now! All I can say that the people who forward them are stupid! :@
you are absolutely right but i hope you also forward this msg what you think about your self
Well rcvd two to three times such msgs had some doubt but didn’t forwarded as i remembered a Hadith saying ” You don’t need anything more that the habit of Forwarding a fact without verification to be called a Lier”
the network compnies especially get agreat profit from this msg
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v.v.v.v.v.v.ery thanks for giving us this information
i heard that too..lolx
Thanks for the post and mentioning the name
these smses were fake but amir dun say tat acid rain doesnt exist i think you havenot studied chemistry in ur matric.. Even in paper it comes nd u saying acid rain doesnt exist
Imi, i meant Acid Rain has nothing to do with Pakistan. It’s obvious that Acid Rain exists
I think mobile companies can also generate such messages to earn some good bucks from sms service.
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