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Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by aetherspawn »

id00 wrote: post #49
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…

I worked for an Australian insurance company and we physically DDOSed a poor man's real mailbox with printed policy documents as we used their address during e2e testing and we mistakenly didn't put a testing flag somewhere. Our CTO had to personally apologise to him

This sounds hilarious, how many physical items are we talking? Like his whole front porch full up of contract boxes?

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by miki123211 »

allreduce wrote: post #45
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 :)

I assume it's a deliberate choice. Where I live these old prepaid contracts are still available next to the offerings you describe and are preferred by some older people and minimalists.

In Poland, I pay 25pln (~$7) per month for unlimited calling and texting + 24GB[1] per month I think.

The fun part is that the data rolls over, so I have something like 4TB of unused data right now, + whatever the special bonus pool I get with each top-up.

The gotcha of this promo is that it all resets back to 0 if you forget to top up even once. I put one over on them though, my bank has an "auto top-up" feature, which is completely free, and of which I'm a very happy customer.

[1] It's 15GB for the first month of the promotion and then it rises by 1GB each month until some cap. Not sure exactly what the cap is though, as the data rolls over and I'm using some each month, so it's very hard to keep track of.

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by larodi »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #15
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…

What does SO stand for here? I assumed Significant Other but that doesn’t square with the story as surely you’d just ask

s.o. = someone

I have lived for at least a long while with the impression it is common abbreviation :D

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by larodi »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #53
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 a…

well... imagine this - you are a concert agency, then some promoter comes, and hires you to do this hall and this artist. you do, it sells out, the room is near empty.

should you be concerned where did the money come and go?

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by id00 »

aetherspawn wrote: post #61
id00 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked for an Australian insurance company and we physically DDOSed a poor man's real mailbox with printed policy documents as we used their address during e2e testing and we mistakenly didn't put a testing flag somewhere. Our CTO had to personally apologise to him

This sounds hilarious, how many physical items are we talking? Like his whole front porch full up of contract boxes?

The documents pack is like an A4 folder 1cm thick. He received close to 100 in one day. Enough for his mailbox to get full and for the postie to dump most of it on the lawn

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by lewispollard »

larodi wrote: post #63
dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does SO stand for here? I assumed Significant Other but that doesn’t square with the story as surely you’d just ask

s.o. = someone I have lived for at least a long while with the impression it is common abbreviation :D

It's a common abbreviation for significant other, i.e. one's husband/wife or partner, but never seen it abbreviate "someone" before.

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by sigseg1v »

Is there a way you can reasonably use that data offer to a large extent? For example, I know my provider has a setup where you can register your device MAC, connect to their city-wide wifi, and then it will let you use your data as wifi. In this scenario if it's really unlimited, is there a way you can chain devices together to get something crazy like 20Gbps up/down and do a bunch of heavy operations 24 hours a day on that for a few days?

Warning: I imagine if you do this they will say "it's not really unlimited bro that's not that we meant"

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by red_admiral »

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…

In the 1970s, a German rock group had a one-hit wonder with a protest song against Munich's sex trade licensing (Skandal im Sperrbezirk). In the lyrics, they had a made-up (so they thought) phone number 32-16-8 that fit the meter of their lyrics in German.

Unfortunately, that was a real phone number in many cities, you could dial the short/local number directly without a 0 and the area code back then. Cue prank calls across the country and quite a few scandals since the topic of the song was, after all, the sex trade.

Re: You Just Reveived

#69

Post by jp57 »

red_admiral wrote: post #68
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…

In the 1970s, a German rock group had a one-hit wonder with a protest song against Munich's sex trade licensing (Skandal im Sperrbezirk). In the lyrics, they had a made-up (so they thought) phone number 32-16-8 that fit the meter of their lyrics in German. Unfortunately, that was a real phone number in many cities, you could dial the short/local number directly without a 0 and the area code back then. Cue prank calls…

Same thing happened in the USA with 867-5309/Jenny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny#Popularity_and_...

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by JakaJancar »

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…

I have a phone number that is +1(gapless non-decreasing sequence). I’m entertained every week by developers testing.

(Also, people using it as a fake number for some appointment/reservation - which I sometimes update to change their name or add a special request :))

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