Dr Uba’s back, and wants your organs
FOURWAYS- When a distressed Chartwell resident phoned Fourways Review with serious allegations of organ harvesting on 6 March, it resurfaced a long-forgotten hoax.
A flyer for a ‘Dr Uba’ from the Uba Clinic was allegedly handed out at the Witkoppen Road and Cedar Avenue intersection last week. The pamphlet offers cash for human organs. It offers up to R5 000 for human eyes, and even sells rhino horn.
But mainly it offers easy money for anybody cash-strapped.
The distressed resident said she wanted to have the story “exposed”, but refused to email photos of the pamphlet, offering instead to drop it off at the paper’s office. She did provide a website address, telephone number and an email address before saying her goodbyes.
The website www.ubaclinic.co.za does indeed exist, but lovers of B-grade horror films will remember it as a frowned-upon marketing stunt for the 2011 South African slasher film Night Drive.
The film deals with a poacher hunting humans for their body parts.
The campaign, although excellently executed, did not do much to boost the movie’s success, and like the hoax, it was soon forgotten.
It is unclear why the pamphlet was allegedly being redistributed again, because a hoax of a hoax is just in poor taste.
The website has since been registered by an unknown web developer, with a link to a Google search proclaiming the person who clicked on it to be an ‘idiot’.
scary!!