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Telephone numbers starting with the digits 555 are assigned to subscribers as ordinary numbers. Hungarian taxi company Tele5 Taxi uses 555-5555 as a vanity number, [22] while at least one company specializing in vanity numbers [23] sells cell phone numbers starting with the digits 555 for a premium rate, capitalizing on their fame in American ...
Lloyds TSB Offshore was formed in Jersey in 2004, with branches in Guernsey and the Isle of Man. In 2013, Lloyds TSB Offshore, incorporating the former Bank of Scotland International, was renamed Lloyds Bank International. At the same time, Lloyds TSB Bank (Gibraltar), which also traded as Lloyds Bank International, became Lloyds Bank (Gibraltar).
The Touch-Tone Terrorists are actually one man, Pete Dzoghi, [1] who also goes by the name RePete.He purchased a series of 1-800 numbers, including ones that were one digit different from actual customer service numbers for companies such as (apparently) UPS, an oil change business, an auto insurance "claims support line", a psychic hotline, a pen manufacturer, a bank, a department store, a ...
The Phone Losers of America (PLA) is an internet prank call community founded in 1994 as a phone phreaking and hacking e-zine. Today the PLA hosts a prank call podcast called the Snow Plow Show , which it has hosted since 2012.
In 2003, Bank of Scotland Offshore Limited, which had been incorporated in the Isle of Man in 1998, was merged with Halifax International Limited, which had been incorporated in Jersey in 1990. In 2011, following the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB Group (subsequently renamed Lloyds Banking Group ), customer accounts were migrated to Lloyds ...
British physicist R. V. Jones recorded two early examples of prank calls in his 1978 memoir Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945.The first was by Carl Bosch, a physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who in about 1933 persuaded a newspaper journalist that he could see his actions through the telephone (rather than, as was the case, from the window of his laboratory ...
List of banks registered in the British offshore financial centre of Jersey: Barclays Bank plc, Jersey Branch; BNP Paribas S.A. Jersey Branch; BNP Paribas Securities Services Custody Bank; Butterfield Bank (Jersey) Limited; Citibank N.A., Jersey Branch; Citicorp Banking Corporation; The Co-operative Bank; Deutsche Bank International
List of banks registered on the island of Guernsey, based on list of licensed banking institutions from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission [1] ABN Amro (Guernsey) Limited; Bank J. Safra Sarasin Limited, Guernsey Branch; Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd, Guernsey Branch; Bank of Cyprus (Channel Islands) Banque cantonale vaudoise, Guernsey Branch