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The Touch-Tone Terrorists are actually one man, Pete Dzoghi, [1] who also goes by the name RePete.He purchased a series of 1-800 numbers, including ones that were one digit different from actual customer service numbers for companies such as (apparently) UPS, an oil change business, an auto insurance "claims support line", a psychic hotline, a pen manufacturer, a bank, a department store, a ...
British physicist R. V. Jones recorded two early examples of prank calls in his 1978 memoir Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945.The first was by Carl Bosch, a physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who in about 1933 persuaded a newspaper journalist that he could see his actions through the telephone (rather than, as was the case, from the window of his laboratory ...
In 2010, in the movie High School, Psycho Ed's card had the number (310) 874-9015 presented as a pager number, but the number is the contact phone number of the director of that movie. In 1998, Queens of the Stone Age released the song Regular John, which includes the number 86278-263789.
The New York Times sent the number 111-111-1111 for all calls made from its offices until August 15, 2011. The fake number was intended to prevent the extensions of its reporters appearing in call logs, and thus protect reporters from having to divulge calls made to anonymous sources.
Johnny Depp is kicking off his new year with a warning for fans over an ongoing social media scam that's cost some folks a lot of money.. In an Instagram post Monday, the Mortdecai star wished his ...
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Brennan began making and recording prank telephone calls in the 1970s, and teamed up with Ahmed, in the late 1980s/early 1990s in their Queens neighborhood. [2] The duo made a number of bootleg tapes of their recorded phone calls that eventually were obtained by New York–based radio personality Howard Stern, who played the duo's tracks on the air.
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