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It’s not just a great number to prank call for kids—but adults can join in for a laugh and a touch of holiday enchantment. 2. Hogwarts Admissions: 1-267-436-5109
The song was in 11th place among the best Brazilian songs of 1997. [14] Since the release of the song, several owners of the number 234-5678, mentioned in the chorus of the song, have frequently received several prank calls. [15] The label Sony Music has offered to buy the phone lines for the number. [16]
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 ...
The calls are coming from all over the place." A little over a month later, they disconnected the number and the phone became silent. [14] In some cases, the number was picked up by commercial businesses or acquired for use in radio promotions. In 1982, WLS radio obtained the number from a Chicago woman, receiving 22,000 calls in four days. [8]
Clocking in at a paper distribution company in Scranton, Pa., might sound somewhat dull, but with a serial prankster like Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) on the job, no two workdays are ever the same ...
Quick Take: List of Scam Area Codes. More than 300 area codes exist in the United States alone which is a target-rich environment for phone scammers.
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 ...
The Phone Losers of America (PLA) is an internet prank call community founded in 1994 as a phone phreaking and hacking e-zine. Today the PLA hosts a prank call podcast called the Snow Plow Show , which it has hosted since 2012.