Cult promises ‘easy life’ in SMS recruitment drive

It is an attractive SMS, promising an easy time, both in this world and in the after-life.

But the SMS is actually a cult recruitment ploy.

Harian Metro reported that a cult has turned to using SMSes to reach out to potential members because the religious authorities in Malaysia have been cracking down on such cults.

As a result, the cult could no longer reach out to people using banners and fliers.

The SMS, sent randomly to friends and relatives, is filled with sweet words, and what the religious authorities in Malaysia term ‘false promises’.

The SMS reads: ‘Hello friend, Amirul mukimin has returned. Let us all follow him to heaven. A clear road awaits those who follow him to heaven. A clear road awaits those who follow amirul mukimin because they are guaranteed a place in heaven.’

Datuk Abdul Rahman Palil, state executive councillor for religious affairs, did not rule out the possibility that the members of the cult had resorted to SMSes because of restrictions imposed by the clampdown on the cult’s activities by the authorities.

He called on people who have received such SMSes to make official reports.

He said that so far, his office had not received any complaints from those who had been targeted by the cult in this way.

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