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Message received "phone infected by a spider"

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Could this be for real?

If so what do I do?

Is this a scam?

If so what do I do?

Help much appreciated.  Thanks

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MI5
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Delete without following any links or doing anything else at all.
I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.

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MI5
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Delete without following any links or doing anything else at all.
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Well that's a new one! Only spider I ever heard of was Baidu Spider and I had to be told that was a Bot search engine....? Confused

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It's the famous BS spider wink
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@MI5 wrote:
It's the famous BS spider wink

LOL Indeed ...but it concerned me 'elsewhere' at the time and I needed reassurance about the damn thing....Dance

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Or as Jon Entwistle wrote, Boris the Spider!

Some you have to admire the new inventiveness or creativity ... this one appears to be lacking in both.... 

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