[HN Gopher] 867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes
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867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes
Author : jbledsoe2112
Score : 35 points
Date : 2022-05-14 18:31 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (telephoneworld.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (telephoneworld.org)
| bityard wrote:
| In the late nineties, if you dialed this in my zip code, you
| would have gotten a hold of my friend's grandmother.
|
| No, her name was not jenny.
| WalterGR wrote:
| HN may be hugging the site. Archive.org:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20220514183125/https://telephone...
| jbledsoe2112 wrote:
| Thanks. HN puts a strain on it. :)
| abirch wrote:
| LTP: if you're at a grocery store and don't have membership
| account, use the local area code and this number. It hasn't
| failed me in the 14 states I've tried it.
| randombits0 wrote:
| Or gas loyalty discounts, or really anywhere you need a throw
| away phone number. It just works. And if you have to deal with
| a human, especially one over 40 years old, you might get a wry
| smile, a wink, or even a chuckle.
| mike_d wrote:
| Back when you had to actually give the number to the cashier
| and they would read back the first name to confirm (or maybe it
| was if multiple accounts were tied to the same number, I'm not
| sure) I would always use this number with the local area code.
| Older cashiers would just put the number in and move on, below
| a certain age threshold they would say "Jenny?" and I would
| nod.
| WalterGR wrote:
| LTP = LPT = Life Pro Tip
| ipv4dhcp wrote:
| would that work for free gas too for kroger?
| imglorp wrote:
| I do that at my stupid hair place: the clerk won't enqueue you
| without some random phone and a name to call when it's your
| turn. Then they wonder why there's a dozen people on that same
| number!
| chiph wrote:
| You want my ZIP code to market to me? 90210
| stormbrew wrote:
| Ok but what about 867-530-9000? (this would be in the Canadian
| territories)
| daheat wrote:
| Jenny!
| brak2718 wrote:
| thanks you jerk now I have this song stuck in my head for the
| next 20 hours
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| I like that they mentioned that they did this for cheap, but did
| not seem to care that they were calling ~1000 random people. And
| they plan to do this regularly.
| omoikane wrote:
| I wonder if they would get in trouble for making hundreds of
| random VoIP calls, especially if they intend to do this on a
| regular basis.
|
| But I suppose we wouldn't be getting so many spam calls if
| people actually got in trouble often, maybe that's what
| emboldened this person to try.
| javajosh wrote:
| Sorry bro, I'm all outa outrage today.
| oxguy3 wrote:
| If you want to get mad about people spamming this phone number
| with fake calls, you're about 40 years too late. The numbers
| are already spammed to hell; there's hardly any harm in one
| more call every 6 months to document the phenomenon.
| bee_rider wrote:
| I guess a significant number of the callers must just be
| curious.
|
| If this site were to somehow become very popular,
| hypothetically it might even cut call volume a bit.
| jbledsoe2112 wrote:
| Naw, like every 6 months or so. Chill, dude.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| I would still find one prank phone call every six months
| annoying. I get that it's probably a small drop in what the
| poor people that unintentionally have that number deal with,
| but it's silly to think the readers would worry about the
| cost to the caller not the stranger called.
| stickfigure wrote:
| My number is unremarkable and I still get a half dozen
| spam/scam calls a day. An extra one in six months would go
| unnoticed. If you're not in my contact list, you go
| straight to voicemail.
| crb3 wrote:
| We get that half dozen as what we call 'ghost calls' --
| the caller has hung up by the time the outgoing message
| ends. It might have something to do with my putting SIT
| tones at the beginning of that outgoing message. If their
| autodialer doesn't drop the call entirely, it triggers
| their message, so we hear it start partway through;
| either way, we know not to pick up.
| jchw wrote:
| From the perspective of those people, it's one call every ~x
| months. The main problem is how _many_ people might be doing
| that.
| zamadatix wrote:
| I think the article gives pretty understandable reasoning of
| why the owners these <400 numbers, of which <100 were actually
| in service and accepting calls, are ones that are expecting to
| get called just to see what's on the number. As it explains
| these numbers are not something given to a random grandma who
| is going to be bothered by the wasted minute on their phone
| plan.
| jbledsoe2112 wrote:
| What happens when you call 867-5309 in all the US and Canadian
| area codes? Do you reach Jenny or something else? Check this list
| out!
| cmroanirgo wrote:
| Related: By the B-52s song, _6060842_
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hik5y1lNGbY
| johnklos wrote:
| Fun but unrelated fact: 8,675,309 is a prime number.
| dlg wrote:
| In 1999, Brown University which had only used 863- added the 867-
| exchange. A suite of students got 5309 and kept getting calls
| asking for "Jenny" at all hours. They stopped assigning that
| number.
|
| Ultimately a Rhode Island plumbing co, Gem Plumbing, bought it
| from Brown and used it in their ads.
| bittercynic wrote:
| For area codes where the number is not assigned, is there some
| way to find out who to contact to purchase it?
| tyingq wrote:
| Guessing somebody beat you to it, because you can find the
| number on "vanity DID" sites selling for ~$10k+/USD:
|
| https://www.numberbarn.com/search?search=867-5309&saleOnly=t...
| jbledsoe2112 wrote:
| Good question. I'd like to know myself.
| brianzelip wrote:
| Campus phones at the Evergreen State College (Olympia,
| Washington) started with 867. I think there was a lucky dorm with
| this land line number!
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