受詛咒的手機號:三名用戶前後死亡(圖)

A mobile phone company has suspended the number 0888 888 888 – after every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years.

保加利亞某移動通訊公司最近終止了號碼0888 888 888的使用，因爲在過去十年中使用它的三名用戶相繼死亡。

The first owner Vladimir Grashnov – the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel which issued the number – died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48.

第一位用戶是Vladimir Grashnov——他簽下這個號碼時任保加利亞手機公司Mobitel的CEO——他於2001年48歲時死於癌症。

Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning.

他在生意場上表現完美，也有傳聞說他的癌症是因爲競爭對手給他放射性的毒藥所致。

The number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss, Konstantin Dimitrov, who was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a trip to inspect his £500 million drug smuggling empire.

這個號碼之後被保加利亞黑手黨領袖Konstantin Dimitrov使用。2003年，當他到荷蘭檢查自己5億英鎊的毒品走私生意時被不知名的殺手開槍打死。

Dimitrov, who died aged 31, had the mobile with him when he was shot while eating out with a model.

他當時只有31歲，中槍時正帶着他的手機，和模特吃飯。

Russian mafia bosses – jealous of his drug smuggling operation – were said to have been behind the killing.

據稱，是覬覦他毒品生意的俄羅斯黑手黨頭目策劃了這次暗殺。

The phone number then passed to Konstantin Dishliev, a crooked businessman, who was gunned down outside an Indian restaurant in Bulgaria's capital Sofia after taking over the jinxed line.

跟着這個手機號又到了Konstantin Dishliev手裏。他是個不法商人。在保加利亞首都索菲亞的一家印度餐館外中槍，延續了這個詛咒鏈。

Dishliev, an estate agent, had secretly been running a massive cocaine trafficking operation before his assassination in 2005.

在他05年中槍之前，作爲地產代理的他曾祕密地進行大宗可卡因交易。

He died after £130 million of the drug was intercepted by police on its way into the country from Colombia.

他死前，警方截獲了他從哥倫比亞運往保加利亞的1.3億英鎊毒品。

Since then, the number is understood to have been dormant while police maintained an open file on Dishliev's killing and his smuggling ring.

自此，這個號碼就停用了。警方爲Dishliev的死和他的不法交易圈保留了公開記錄。

Now phone bosses are said to have suspended the number for good. Callers now get a recorded message saying the phone is "outside network coverage."

現在這個號碼已經永久性地停用。如果打它，會得到“用戶不在服務區”的提示。

A Mobitel spokesman would only say: "We have no comment to make. We won't discuss individual numbers."

該通訊公司的發言人只是說：“我們對此不做評論。我們不會談論私人的號碼。”