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- Zaffel, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25I don't know but this "service" spells a great way to collect peoples phone numbers for marketing purposes.
- tokachu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10This site ripped off http://www.phonetic.com/ -- right down to the "Results" page. All they did was make a similar script and toss a few dozen spam links on it. Demand the original... demand phonetic.com!
Oh, and this is a duplicate story. See:
http://digg.com/links/Mnemonics_for_your_phone_ (same damn site)
http://digg.com/links/What_does_your_phone_number_spell__4 (another ripoff site)
http://digg.com/links/Find_out_what_your_phone_number_spells_ (the other ripoff site again) - c0uchm0nster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Well zaffel, unlike you, I didn't get A's in my college marketing class (I'll resist the urge to make jokes about a class that teaches you how to market colleges). I didn't even take any marketing course.
However, I do like to think I have occassional sparks of common sense. Let us consider:
1. They are collecting no information other than a phone number. This provides them with, oh, half or less than half the information that a phone book provides.
2. It has no targetted core except perhaps the easily entertained or bored as hell - not much incentive for people to buy any list they might be selling.
3. Many numbers are fake, or incomplete.
4. Many numbers may be from another country without any way of knowing, considering they only allow up to 10 digits.
You know, I found this tinfoil hat on the ground here, is it yours? - gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7dupe and useless
- capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I entered my ex girlfriends phone number... it returned the result: Fat Slut. Kidding of course... :)
- jwalk81980, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Mine spells LAME-DIG
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5You have to be paranoid these days. They're all out to get us! The government is watching us man... The truth is out there...
- codemac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree with dirtyfratboy. You can submit whatever people will digg..... but this is lame.
To those worried about security for whatever reason, you can do this really quick BY LOOKING AT A PHONE! - harley999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LOL, mine is EVIL-577. ***** the marketing purpose *****, just dont enter your area code..
- aquax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have two many 1s and 0s in both of my numbers to spell anything.
- Jasoco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mine spells nothing.
Bah. - stutteringstan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Go to this site to see what I mean by IP map:
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
It's pretty easy to find your area code with this information.
An anonymous proxy like https://proxify.com/ will undermine this.
Try it! - cully, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1382-5968 was a local number where I grew up. I have many a fond memory of calling it; sometimes getting out of service responses and sometimes getting people. I guess the phone company kept giving it out.
- Hoohoonick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my number spelled something with rape. not happy.
- Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mine doesnt spell anything its a weird number according to the thing
- SuperBeast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1agreed. this is the third time i have seen this on digg.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0328 7588
- INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Wow I remember using something like this WAY back in the day. It was a does app that I had downloaded from a BBS. I feel old. :(
Anybody remember WildCat? - Zaffel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Isn't it funny that the privacy issue in the FAQ's say a lot about not sending email but nothing about selling your phone numbers?
- cgranade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No. To mess with the data. Never underestimate the degree to which data collection can be frustrated by people with too much time.
- ikishk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how many years old is this?
- Zaffel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3" as an added point a lot of the time people would not even enter their area code."
A lot of time people would enter their area code, especially if nothing comes up with 7 digits. - doctornakul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0382-5968.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Obviously you haven't looked at it. They're very different, from the way they present the results to the layout of the page.
- rodzilla, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2wow everyone is so paranoid these days.
- stutteringstan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1If they want your phone number w/ area code and you provide the prefix w/ 4 digits, it's as simple as this:
Your IP Address + prefix + 4digits
Your IP Address => IP Map => your region => your area code
your area code + prefix + 4digits = YourPhoneNumber
...too easy...
If your paranoid, use an anonymous proxy. Your prefix is probably used in several areas around the country. - crazymexican05, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2agreed.
- cgranade, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Seems hard... too many people would enter in fake numbers.
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2If you really want to submit these kind of posts, then just go to Bored.com. Big selection. I bet they'll all end up on the front page.
- g4blows, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3This quote was taken from their FAQ page under "I'm worried about privacy. What do you collect and what do you do of it."
PhoneSpell has never given any of this information to any other entity or used it to contact anyone who has not sent us email. PhoneSpell does not know or care to know the identity of its users who wish to remain anonymous unless they try to abuse the service. PhoneSpell does not send unsolicited email (spam), does not authorize anyone to include information about PhoneSpell in an unsolicited mailing, and supports CAUCE in their efforts to restrict unsolicited email.
Sounds good to me, and as an added point a lot of the time people would not even enter their area code. - Zaffel, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4ya, thats what I would say to convince people to leave their number as well. As we all know marketeers NEVER lie! I don't believe everything I read.
By the by... just because they say they never "have" doesn't mean their not collecting numbers to sell in the future, then erase that particular FAQ. Im no sucker! but i did get A's in my college marketing class. - Zaffel, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2fake numbers for what? To see that arbitrary numbers can in fact = words? chances are they are collecting #. nothing is free.
- diggerphelps, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3D-U-K-E-S-U-X
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