*LONDON – After the suicidal Blue Whale game, a new deadly game has beenreleased that has already taken the life of a 12-year-old girl.*
Last year a deadly game called the ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ made headlines asit forced the players to commit suicide after giving them many challenges.Similar to that, another disturbing game called ‘Momo’ has swept socialmedia, mostly WhatsApp, which has got parents and authorities concerned.
As per *The Sun, *the game initiated on a Facebook group where members werechallenged to contact ‘Momo’ by sending messages to an unknown number andare later harassed with disturbing images and violent messages, orderingthem to follow grotesque orders, often involving posting images and videosof self-harm or suicide.
Recently, a 12-year-old girl committed suicide in Argentina withauthorities claiming the game to have a possible connection, similar to howthe Blue Whale challenge caused numerous suicides last year. The copsclaimed to have unlocked the girl’s phone finding a video she filmed ofherself shortly before she died.
The game ‘controller’ claims to know the player’s personal information andthreatens them if they don’t follow orders. Currently, Argentinianofficials are investigating the identity of the mysterious ‘controller’,reporting that the number is associated with an 18-year-old.
The game is tied to a disturbing picture of a woman with terrifyingfeature, ripped off from the work of a Japanese doll artist Midori Hayashiwho is not associated with the game.
Though it isn’t clear what the game’s intentions are, but authorities warnthat the unknown senders can be using it to steal data or encourageviolence and suicide, as per *BBC. *Targeting mostly teenagers, the fatalchallenge has already been reported in couple of countries includingMexico, US, Argentina, Germany and France.
The Cybercrime authorities have already started issuing advisories toprotect their children from this challenge and have asked WhatsApp usersnot to contact unknown numbers or engage in chain messages.