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  2. Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia

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    In Hungary, telephone numbers are in the format 06 + area code + subscriber number, where the area code is a single digit 1 for Budapest, the capital, followed by a seven digit subscriber number, and two digits followed by either seven (for cell phone numbers) or six digits (others). for other areas, cell phone numbers or non-geographic numbers ...

  3. Rejection hotline - Wikipedia

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    Rejection hotline. A rejection hotline is a phone number which delivers a pre-recorded message telling the caller that the caller is rejected by the person who gave the caller that number. This project was set up as a practical joke by Jeff Goldblatt in 2001. [1] Goldblatt says that after observing an awkward situation where a man approached a ...

  4. Prank call - Wikipedia

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    Prank call. A prank call (also known as a crank call or a hoax call or a goof call) is a telephone call intended by the caller as a practical joke played on the person answering. It is often a type of nuisance call. It can be illegal under certain circumstances. Recordings of prank phone calls became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette ...

  5. 30 Scam Phone Numbers To Block and Area Codes To Avoid - AOL

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    Since there is no limit to a scam artist’s potential, recognizing signs of common scams will serve you well. Here are examples of three of the most common scams out there today and how to block ...

  6. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Kenmore 9392 is a five-pull (1L-4N) small-city telephone number for the Kenmore exchange in Fort Wayne, Indiana. MArket 7032 is a six-digit (2L-4N) telephone number. This format was in use from the 1920s through the 1950s, and was phased out c. 1960. BALdwin 6828 is an urban 3L-4N example, used only in the largest cities before conversion to ...

  7. Category:Songs about telephone calls - Wikipedia

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    Call Me (Deee-Lite song) Call Me (Skyy song) Call Me Back Again. Call Me Maybe. Call Me Mr. Telephone (Answering Service) Call Me, Beep Me! The Call (Backstreet Boys song) Callin' Baton Rouge. Chantilly Lace (song)

  8. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

  9. Technical support scam - Wikipedia

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    A Recent Changes page from a MediaWiki site affected by technical support scammers promoting fake "help lines" Technical support scams can begin in a variety of ways. Some variants of the scam are initiated using pop-up advertising on infected websites or via cybersquatting of major websites.

  10. Review: ‘Number Go Up’ is a funny if shallow look at the ...

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    On a few occasions, Number Go Up does situate crypto grifting within a larger historical context, including his account of the “Big Store” scam in the Old West that saw con men open fake stock ...

  11. Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia

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    The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of ...