{"id":13330,"date":"2024-10-21T20:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=13330"},"modified":"2024-10-29T20:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T20:08:57","slug":"technology-the-true-story-of-the-phone-call-from-13-or-4-numbers-619560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/technology\/the-true-story-of-the-phone-call-from-13-or-4-numbers-619560\/","title":{"rendered":"The true story of the phone call from 13 or 4 numbers!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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WhatsApp social media platform is a widely used medium to create and spread fake news, fake audios and videos in the present day. Below is an investigation we did regarding a false news that was created to mislead people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recently, such a message was circulated in WhatsApp social media and a video with a recorded voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a news that has just been received. Listen to this and share it among your friends. If you get a call from 13 or 4 numbers on your phone, don\u2019t answer it no matter what. Your phone will explode immediately when you answer the phone. This has happened now and many people have died. In Singapore and India. I don\u2019t know if this affects Sri Lanka as well. Don\u2019t answer call from 13 or 4 numbers and share this to everyone.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The photo showed a headless man sitting on a chair in a pool of blood. Although many people have recognized that this incident is not related to the voice message shared in WhatsApp, we have investigated the facts based on several requests we received to disclose the facts regarding the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact Check<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

in the first investigation we made in this regard, we came to see than an investigative report conducted by an investigative group in India called \u2018Youturn\u2019 had revealed the true facts regarding this incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facts contained in the voice message and the video and photos that were circulated have also been circulated in Indian social media claiming it as an incident in India. You can check the youturn facts here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actual background story of the photograph which was shown to be a death due to a phone explosion due to call from 13 or 4 numbers is a photo of an ADMK supporter being killed by three people in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The murdered person is a businessman named Mathivanan from VGP Nagar and the person was murdered while he was sitting outside his business place on August 2nd<\/sup> at around 10pm. You can refer to Indian news report regarding the incident from here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video taken at that time was mentioned in an Indian news channel as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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