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| Are they kidding me? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 10/31/2016, 11:51am PDT | ||||
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| I got a call from a company named 5 Points Capital, or something like that. But what surprised me was their phone number. 818 092 4100. First, 818 is a legitimate area code, it's the Simi Valley part of Los Angeles County in California. But for those of you outside of North America, 092 is a fake prefix, faker than 555. Real phone numbers in North America cannot start with 0 or 1, (a requirement since about 1947) in fact the only way you can have a number like that generated for caller ID is that you own your own PBX switch and you programmed it to do that.
So the point being, why does a company think that if it lies about its return phone number expect me to be willing to do business with it? And not just that they use a fake number, but that they use an obvious fake number. If they don't even want people to know what their phone number is, do I really want to do business with it? |
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Are they kidding me? by 10/31/2016, 11:51am PDT  And that was how they lost what could have been their biggest customer. NT by 10/31/2016, 12:22pm PDT Your NANPA and NANMA called by 10/31/2016, 2:12pm PDT http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/diabetes-blurred-vision NT by 10/31/2016, 2:27pm PDT You should have really taken the call, we were going to fund your SaaS company by 10/31/2016, 3:50pm PDT |
