Text messages from a “G Raffe” has caused a lot of stress at the Dublin Zoo

A hoaxer has been sending text messages to mess with the Dublin Zoo in Ireland. The texts told the recipients to call the Dublin Zoo for an “urgent message,” and about 100,000 people did call in the past two weeks. The texts are a hoax, sent out by a witty “joker” signing his (or her) name “G Raffe, C Lion, Rory Lyons, and Anna Conda,” all quite “clever” adaptations of the names of animals. The zoo’s phone system has been choked with “13 calls a minute” and the zoo’s marketing manager admitted that they had lost their “sense of humor” about the calls. The real question this raises is who would call a zoo for an “urgent message” sent by a mystery texter? Apparently 100,000 people from Ireland will.

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