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I only say this because there's no identifier to differenciate a real phone number from a test one. Subscribers often called to report those gibberish text messages they received. It's always a dev entering an incorrect number while testing.
In case anyone else here is curious, the ACMA maintains a list of reserved numbers for use in creative works, which you can use for dummy data: https://www.acma.gov.au/phone-numbers-use-tv-shows-films-and...
I wonder how common something like this is.
That was one number we were told to stop using at Internode. I heard similar stories from Optus and Telstra employees.
Our CTO had to personally apologise to him
The bank forgot it had customers in a Crown Dependency. It forgot those countries issues their own ID, their own passports, their own drivers' licences. It forgot it closed its branches in those countries: it told me I had to go into my branch. My nearest branch is a £200 airfare away. It was not paying, naturally.
The crappy online-verification tool only recognises UK documents. It can't handle Isle of Man ones. They did not think.
Unfortunately, that was a real phone number in many cities, you could dial the short/local number directly without a 0 and the area code back then. Cue prank calls across the country and quite a few scandals since the topic of the song was, after all, the sex trade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny#Popularity_and_...
I am one.
I have never visited California or the West Coast of the USA in my life.
But I have used dozens of websites which need a Zip code.
I have never had a Zip code. I have postcodes, like my old one IM2 3EW. That has letters. It won't fit a Zip code field.
So I and millions of others use the only Zip code we know:
Beverley Hills 90210.
Sometimes enthusiastic or particularly bored developers do put in the effort to write things out like a real message though.
In my first job we had warehouse management system, and for testing new versions we allowed users to log-in to test environment.
Some employees didn't knew they were supposed to only log in to prod and happily worked in their warehouse accepting deliveries, stocktaking, moving stuff in real world using test db instead of the prod one. We only realized when they moved so much stuff that the inconsistencies db vs reality triggered alarms.
(Also, people using it as a fake number for some appointment/reservation - which I sometimes update to change their name or add a special request :))
I am more surprised that mobile plans are still charging by the minute. A "toll quality" 64kbps audio stream is 480KB per minute. More advanced codecs use a fraction of that.
At 50 Mbps, you can theoretically exhaust this in just over six days. At 1 Gbps, it takes less than eight hours.
Once shaped—a month of 1 Mbps is less than 335 GB.
So in practice all these unlimiteds boil down to less than 4TB/month.
Well, not with that attitude! Initiate a 139-party conference call from your phone and you'll just about make it.
And while the amount is not a large one, it is still very suspicious this keeps going on, even after two very long calls with the support. I'm going to soon speak to the partner network, but it is appalling how much these people are not interested in who actually gives their enterprise money. They're only there to take it.
A couple other small tells, although very fluent... "enterprise" instead of "business", etc.
I have lived for at least a long while with the impression it is common abbreviation :D
Why should they be?
In more than a few jurisdictions you can pay utilities or property taxes via an online portal without logging in. You just pull up a property, click "make a payment", and enter an amount along with a payment method into the portal. If you were to use a gift card for a utility payment I believe all they'd have is a browser fingerprint and an IP address. But why should that be an issue?
should you be concerned where did the money come and go?
Even then unless legally obligated I don't see why you should care. Just report the highly suspicious activity and let law enforcement handle it. Not your problem.
You only need to look into your customers to the extent required by law; beyond that it's not your problem. In your example with an intermediary a failure to report suspicious activity could potentially result in you being viewed as an accomplice.
After we bought our house, the property tax was still billed to the previous owner for some time. We called our local city hall, and their answer was basically "just talk to the previous owner and pay the tax for them, we don't care where the money comes from".
Pecunia non olet.
> Before I continue, I will answer the obvious question: Did I actually receive 999999 minutes? Yes, indeed I did. But unfortunately, I was only given 7200 minutes to spend my 999999 minutes and I could only spend them 1 minute at a time.
>For five days I had a million minutes and I was possibly the first and only Vodafone minute millionaire
It's vanishingly rare for me. I got a call from a friend today - but I think I otherwise only make or receive a legit phone call every few days. We use social media mostly. Work "calls" are on apps.
A family could probably get away with 2 phones easily, as long as they have home internet.
Now... When I was young and internet was over dial-up, having a single phone line for our whole family caused quite a lot of spats.
This seems like some sort of punishment those monks that stand in one place and pray until their feet wear holes in the floor would use. Mint Mobile is like $15 a month.
No, you're right.
If my choice were to worry about first-tier direct customers kicking me off cell towers at stadiums and public events, or worry about whether wife-husband-son SIM card would make it home in time for my work trip, it would be a pretty easy one.
The fun part is that the data rolls over, so I have something like 4TB of unused data right now, + whatever the special bonus pool I get with each top-up.
The gotcha of this promo is that it all resets back to 0 if you forget to top up even once. I put one over on them though, my bank has an "auto top-up" feature, which is completely free, and of which I'm a very happy customer.
[1] It's 15GB for the first month of the promotion and then it rises by 1GB each month until some cap. Not sure exactly what the cap is though, as the data rolls over and I'm using some each month, so it's very hard to keep track of.
For 8.25 EUR/month, you get 250 GB of data per year, and for 12.40 EUR 450 GB/year.
I'd love to have a sub, with like "unlock a free croissant every 100 SMS sent"!
Especially the emails, resending me literally the same offer of a 5€ rebate per month five times is just offensive spam. The other ones were just variations of the same offer with different styling.
My theory is that it was exactly then I was changing operators while keeping my number, so the scammers tried complaining to the wrong one and failed. Not that I had any objections for the 2 years of free calls and data this got me but this still is a bit of mystery to me.
“Hey, give people a billion dollars of credits for the next 17 seconds. Oh!, make it look like a mistake too!”
Warning: I imagine if you do this they will say "it's not really unlimited bro that's not that we meant"