I work in a county government setting and now have the pleasure of being saddled with an insane citizen. She goes from department to department ranting and raving about different topics and now she’s being dumped on me to answer her demands.
She gave me her local cell phone number, but she told me to enter ‘443’ in front and ‘66’ at the end, making it a 12 digit number. She told me not to put the area code in. I asked her what this is for and she just smiled and wouldn’t answer.
I suspect it’s some sort of tracking system or anti-block program, (or nothing at all and just messing with my head) but haven’t had any lucking googling this search.
Not that I plan to put in those extra numbers, or call her for that matter, but I am curious what they’re for.
Well, if you’re dialing on your cell phone (or it happens to be local to you), dialing ‘443’ in place of her correct area code, not too surprisingly, leads you to a 443 area code number. Reverse lookup shows 443 to be in the Baltimore, Maryland area.
I have no idea what adding ‘66’ to the end does, but I doubt it does anything.
I agree. Trailing numbers are ignored by the switch. The only time they could come into play would be if there were delays in the entry of the number (usually entered as commas) that would cause the extra numbers to be played back to a voice response unit. However, just adding the numbers won’t do that because they will be played out while the phone is ringing.
Giving you one number but then asking you to use something else for the first three digits is just weird. [rhetorical question]Why didn’t she just give you the number like that in the first place?[/rhetorical question] Sounds like this person is a bit of a nut job.
Did she say to dial “1 443 xxx xxxx 66”? Or did she say to start dialing with the “443”? “44” is the international code for the United Kingdom in the way that “1” is the international code for the U.S. Any chance she’s trying to mke you call Great Britain (as a joke or for spite)?