Reply to: mobile numbers Chinese website

[NotAllThere]

How many country codes are there? Your +44 77 123 4567 might be different from +41 77 123 4567

[Zippy]

It is now, soon to be added to the list no doubt.

edit: I mean that just by searching for it, you've told them another number.

I thought of that and entered a false number

[blacjac]

Mine is, but not on the page linked to - try changing the numbers at the end of the URL (http://www.cnjuqing.com/haoma/0776181) to the first seven digits of your number

Alternatively, try this Google search, replacing the "0776181" with your full number.

Still nope. In fact I can't find a single one that starts with the same 5 numbers as mine...

[pzz76077]

set up a simple script to crawl the site and get the whole list for nothing.

I guess equally, you could script up some semi random phone numbers and get a load of paranoid ITers to type in their own numbers to validate them for you...

PZZ

[OwlHoot]

Mine is not there

It is now, soon to be added to the list no doubt.

edit: I mean that just by searching for it, you've told them another number.

[NickFitz]

Once you have the list, there are thousands of potential buyers around the world that would buy a copy for a 100 bucks a pop.

set up a simple script to crawl the site and get the whole list for nothing.

[NickFitz]

Mine is not there

Mine is, but not on the page linked to - try changing the numbers at the end of the URL (http://www.cnjuqing.com/haoma/0776181) to the first seven digits of your number

Alternatively, try this Google search, replacing the "0776181" with your full number.

[pzz76077]

Armed with an autodialer and a range of numbers, it would only take one ring to see which ones are active, so about a day and no cost to generate this list.

Once you have the list, there are thousands of potential buyers around the world that would buy a copy for a 100 bucks a pop. Not a bad plan B....


PZZ

[Zippy]

Mine is not there

[TheFaQQer]

Why does this website have my phone number and for that matter most other mobile numbers I know of.

Probably harvested from some kind of massive botnet / mobile phone thing.

You'd be immune if only you used a Mac and an iPhone.

[jmo21]

Some of those are Wong numbers

[AtW]

Why does this website have my phone number and for that matter most other mobile numbers I know of.

People people enter mobiles there to check if they exist?

[Paddy]

Why does this website have my phone number and for that matter most other mobile numbers I know of.

Some of those are Wong numbers

[norrahe]

Why does this website have my phone number and for that matter most other mobile numbers I know of.

Mine is there too.

Though I was in China in 2008.

[larson]

http://www.contractoruk.com/ir35/index.html

I was in China for quite a while.

I can't explain that website, but guess they have had access to the mobile listings made available by UK operators for directory enquiry purposes.

When I was over, I also noticed if I searched for a few Chinese mobile numbers they appeared on similar websites. Not sure what to make of it. If China ever becomes the call-centre capital of the world, I suppose we can start worrying.