on 12 january 2010, n-dubz appeared on "the chris moyles show" on bbc radio 1. the show received a text message from a chloe moody in boston, lincolnshire complaining that dappy was "vile" and "a little boy with a silly hat" and that n-dubz were "losers". dappy secretly copied moody's phone number from the studio console and, the following day, tried calling her and sent threatening messages including: "your [sic] gonna die. u sent a very bad msg towards ndubz on the chris moyels [sic] show yesterday morning and for that reason u will never be left alone!!! u say sorry i will leave u alone u ****." moody claimed that she continued to receive messages after declining to apologise but n-dubz management later apologised on his behalf and offered free tickets to one of his concerts, although dappy has not apologised to moody personally. the rapper had appeared with the then-schools secretary ed balls to launch pop single "ru cyber safe" in november 2009, but was dropped from the campaign with mr balls saying: "this text message was completely unacceptable and it is right that he has not only apologised, but accepted there was no excuse for his behaviour."