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Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by lxgr »

AdamN wrote: post #46
japoneris wrote: post #39

When reading a post like that, I am like "whaaat, people are locked in the 90s?" In France, it is almost unlimited for 20€/month, so very cheap, I do not care / try to optimize that. Happy for you you got unlimited :)

Germany is more expensive (unless you go with a phone contract from the local grocery store - which I've heard mixed reviews about)

The grocery store plans are fine. There aren't any QoS tiers on mobile data networks in Germany to my knowledge, so the prioritization you get is just as good or bad as the 100€/month corporate plan sharing the same cell tower with you.

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Post by lxgr »

> Did I actually receive 999999 minutes? Yes, indeed I did. But unfortunately, I was only given 7200 minutes to spend my 999999 minutes and I could only spend them 1 minute at a time.

Well, not with that attitude! Initiate a 139-party conference call from your phone and you'll just about make it.

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#53

Post by fc417fc802 »

larodi wrote: post #12

For more than six months now, s.o. is (perhaps accidentally) paying my mobile bill. I have two sim cards, one is data, almost unused. Called the operator twice, concerned that a granny is messing the user ID, or that s.o. is trying to impersonate me by paying the bills and then claiming ownership. Two times reps. assure me that they have no clue who does the payment as it arrives from a partner network taking cash pa…

> it is appalling how much these people are not interested in who actually gives their enterprise money

Why should they be?

In more than a few jurisdictions you can pay utilities or property taxes via an online portal without logging in. You just pull up a property, click "make a payment", and enter an amount along with a payment method into the portal. If you were to use a gift card for a utility payment I believe all they'd have is a browser fingerprint and an IP address. But why should that be an issue?

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#54

Post by majewsky »

Sebguer wrote: post #20
fwipsy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"someone?"

this makes the most sense but i have never in my life seen someone abbreviate someone as SO, haha.

Not exactly the same, but "sb." and "sth." are common abbreviations in dictionaries, e.g. "to meet sb." or "to pick sth. up". To those familiar with this convention, "s.o." can generally be inferred from context.

Re: You Just Reveived

#55

Post by jllyhill »

Back in 2017-8 I've got a four consequent top ups of an equivalent of $50 each (so a total of $200) from an unknown source. After that I've got a call from a resident cell number saying I've got a $200 fine for watching porn that I laughed off and hung up. I thought it was a scam to make me pay the "fine" with the money I've just got and then call the operator, tell them they "mistakenly" paid for the wrong number (four times for $50, lol) and get the money back. So I sat there and waited for the money to be recalled... but it never happened.

My theory is that it was exactly then I was changing operators while keeping my number, so the scammers tried complaining to the wrong one and failed. Not that I had any objections for the 2 years of free calls and data this got me but this still is a bit of mystery to me.

Re: You Just Reveived

#56

Post by tmtvl »

nandomrumber wrote: post #43
ajxs wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I worked for an Australian telco (not Vodafone), some developers on another team had used a very conspicuous mobile phone number in their integration tests, which actually connected to a real SMS service somewhere else in the company. No idea why they would do this. It turned out that this number belonged to a real person, who got absolutely buried in test SMS messages, when the integration tests ran as part of…

0412 345 678 That was one number we were told to stop using at Internode. I heard similar stories from Optus and Telstra employees.

Someone I know who works at a telco (no idea if Vodafone is a thing in Belgium, but whatever: not Vodafone) was talking about a number someone has: 0411 11 11 11, and they got over a hundred operator messages every day.

Re: You Just Reveived

#57

Post by blueflow »

jaksa wrote: post #7

I'm even more intrigued by the whole family sharing two phones and switching sim cards. What's the reason behind it? How does it work?

Dylan is the sort of computer person who was like "fuck this crap" and went into farming. I'm surprised they still update their blog.

Re: You Just Reveived

#58

Post by titanomachy »

Sebguer wrote: post #20
fwipsy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"someone?"

this makes the most sense but i have never in my life seen someone abbreviate someone as SO, haha.

They're probably French, the French are always writing qqn and qqch for "quelqu'un" and "quelque chose".

A couple other small tells, although very fluent... "enterprise" instead of "business", etc.

Re: You Just Reveived

#59

Post by lqet »

larodi wrote: post #12

For more than six months now, s.o. is (perhaps accidentally) paying my mobile bill. I have two sim cards, one is data, almost unused. Called the operator twice, concerned that a granny is messing the user ID, or that s.o. is trying to impersonate me by paying the bills and then claiming ownership. Two times reps. assure me that they have no clue who does the payment as it arrives from a partner network taking cash pa…

> it is appalling how much these people are not interested in who actually gives their enterprise money

After we bought our house, the property tax was still billed to the previous owner for some time. We called our local city hall, and their answer was basically "just talk to the previous owner and pay the tax for them, we don't care where the money comes from".

Pecunia non olet.

Re: You Just Reveived

#60

Post by miki123211 »

ajxs wrote: post #34
firefoxd wrote: post #30

As someone working for a telco, not Vodafone, this would be my assumptions: A developer mistakenly grabbed a real MSISDN, instead of a QA one, while testing a promo still in development. I only say this because there's no identifier to differenciate a real phone number from a test one. Subscribers often called to report those gibberish text messages they received. It's always a dev entering an incorrect number while…

When I worked for an Australian telco (not Vodafone), some developers on another team had used a very conspicuous mobile phone number in their integration tests, which actually connected to a real SMS service somewhere else in the company. No idea why they would do this. It turned out that this number belonged to a real person, who got absolutely buried in test SMS messages, when the integration tests ran as part of…

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