Re: Another evil number
On 6/25/21 1:12 PM, Bill Cole wrote: There was also an old nomenclature system that mapped the local exchange prefix to 2 letters and a digit, with the 2 letters being an abbreviation of some word. For example, as a kid I had a "Parkview 1" number: 721-. Businesses would often put their numbers in print ads using those, e.g. PA1-1234. Parkview was not an actual place, but all the PAx exchanges in St. Louis were within a mile or two of Forest Park, i.e. people who might be able to have a view of the park from an adequately tall tree. My understanding is the letters were (the first?) part of the phone switch / exchange name. The following Wikipedia article supports this and has more details. Link - Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names -- Grant. . . . unix || die smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Another evil number
On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Greg Troxel wrote:
RW writes:
You can reach out
to our Customer Support Team+1 (800) 781 - 2511.
Is it common in the US to put 800 in brackets like that? In my
experience brackets normally go around either country codes or area
codes, digits that may be optional.
Yes, it common. The proper form is
+1 800 782 2511
but people in the US do not write numbers like that.
The normal way in the US would be
(800) 782-2511
and i find the spaces around the - to be unusual. But really there is a
fair degree of variation.
And then there's the obfuscation that spammers/phishers use.
Here's an example from a recent message I found in one of my spam traps:
if you have any issue regarding your order.
Reach us at +1 [805} 429-6748
Thanks & Regards
+1 [805} 429-6748
Those bracket/brace mismatching are verbatium.
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College of Engineering
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Re: Another evil number
On 2021-06-25 at 14:24:13 UTC-0400 (Fri, 25 Jun 2021 19:24:13 +0100) RW is rumored to have said: On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 05:51:24 -0700 Loren Wilton wrote: From a fake "subscription" spam: You can reach out to our Customer Support Team+1 (800) 781 - 2511. Is it common in the US to put 800 in brackets like that? Yes. In my experience brackets normally go around either country codes or area codes, digits that may be optional. In the US system (NANP) toll-free numbers were initially implemented as special pseudo-area codes. For many years area codes were strictly geographic except for 800 and later 888 toll-free numbers, and we had 3 types of dialing: 7-digit "toll-free local," 1+7-digit "local toll," and 1+3-digit-area-code+7-digit "long distance toll." In border areas, (###) ###- was a common format in print. Because toll-free numbers worked most like long distance toll calls, requiring '1+###' as a prefix, they got the same punctuation treatment. Inordinate additional detail: For some time, we also had "local exchange" dialing, where one could just dial the last 4 digits for local numbers sharing the same 3-digit prefix. There was also an old nomenclature system that mapped the local exchange prefix to 2 letters and a digit, with the 2 letters being an abbreviation of some word. For example, as a kid I had a "Parkview 1" number: 721-. Businesses would often put their numbers in print ads using those, e.g. PA1-1234. Parkview was not an actual place, but all the PAx exchanges in St. Louis were within a mile or two of Forest Park, i.e. people who might be able to have a view of the park from an adequately tall tree. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire
Re: Another evil number
RW writes: >> You can reach out >>to our Customer Support Team+1 (800) 781 - 2511. > > Is it common in the US to put 800 in brackets like that? In my > experience brackets normally go around either country codes or area > codes, digits that may be optional. Yes, it common. The proper form is +1 800 782 2511 but people in the US do not write numbers like that. The normal way in the US would be (800) 782-2511 and i find the spaces around the - to be unusual. But really there is a fair degree of variation. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Another evil number
On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 05:51:24 -0700 Loren Wilton wrote: > From a fake "subscription" spam: > > You can reach out >to our Customer Support Team+1 (800) 781 - 2511. Is it common in the US to put 800 in brackets like that? In my experience brackets normally go around either country codes or area codes, digits that may be optional.
Another evil number
From a fake "subscription" spam: You can reach out to our Customer Support Team+1 (800) 781 - 2511.
