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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.
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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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Girl in a jacket
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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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