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Such numbers are an alternative to the traditional 'landline' numbers that are assigned geographically using a system of location-specific area codes. Non-geographic numbers are used for various reasons, from providing flexible routing of incoming phone calls to generating revenue for paid-for services.
Telephone number verification (or validation) services are online services used to establish whether a given telephone number is in service. They may include a form of Turing test to further determine if a human answers or answering equipment such as a modem , fax , voice mail or answering machine .
07xxx xxx xxx—mobile phones and WiFi numbers. Individual mobile phone companies are allocated different ranges within the 071xx, 073xx, 074xx, 075xx, 07624, 077xx, 078xx and 079xx prefixes. Changes to mobile phone numbers in the Big Number Change were mostly straight replacements, such as Vodafone customers on the 0378 block became 07778.
For two decades this service was plagued with "significant scamming activity" of various sorts [9] [10] as users can mistakenly assume they are calling a UK mobile telephone number that generally costs far less. [11] (For the telephone numbering plan context of 070 numbers see Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom).
Use a phone number you trust, such as the number on a past statement or a verified number from your phone's address book. Beware of unsolicited messages claiming something’s wrong with your account.
Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. phone number to Google Account customers [4] in the U.S. and Google Workspace (G Suite by October 2020 [5]) customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the contiguous United States. [6]
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
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