Alive Status Verification SMS Service

One of the strangest SMS offers to ever cross my desk is South Africa's "Alive Status Verification" SMS Service launched this Monday by Home Affairs which allows citizens to find out whether they are officially dead or alive. News24 reports.

The purpose of the service is assist South Africans to check their status to ensure that they have not been fraudulently declared dead on the population register," the department said in a statement.

It did not elaborate on why anyone would be fraudulently declared dead.

Full press release.

emily | 10:46 PM | New SMS Services |
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