Also used by real, normal, new phone numbers in London, such as my home landline! Please don't assume 0203 means bad things :)
Dan 2015-10-20 7:14 GMT-04:00 Philip Barnes <[email protected]>: > It came as little surprise that they have an 0203 number, which is a virtual > number range as used by 'you've had an accident in the last 3 years' scammers. > > I would assume they are not a bricks and mortar business. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > On Tue Oct 20 12:03:14 2015 GMT+0100, Andy Townsend wrote: >> On 19/10/2015 17:05, Amaroussi (OpenStreetMap) wrote: >> > FYi, I just reverted a small yet disruptive case of spamdalism by user >> > “Office Cleaners London” (did I just invent a new term for OSM?). >> > >> > Reverting changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34735686 >> > >> > Offending changesets: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34468479 and >> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/34468339 >> > >> > What should we do with the user “Office Cleaners London”? >> > >> >> I'd send them a polite message via a changeset discussion comment >> explaining what went wrong with their edit. >> >> Perhaps explain that if they're a genuine bricks-and-mortar business >> that exists in the physical world we'd love to have them in OSM, and >> perhaps point them at http://onosm.org as a way to get a note added to >> avoid them having to tangle with one of the OSM editors. Oddly, the >> address on their website is up near London Bridge rather than south of >> Elephant and Castle, which might be something else to mention. >> >> Someone "changing a road to be a POI" looks more like a cockup than a >> conspiracy* to me. There are spammers adding stuff to OSM (though >> thankfully more in the USA than here); most are better at it than this. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Andy >> >> * (c) Bernard Ingham >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > -- > Sent from my Jolla > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
