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lol on a much lighter note, for many years I used to use 111-111-1111 as a general phone number for CVS card discounts. It stopped working several years ago tho
by MiddleEndian 1y ago
lol on a much lighter note, for many years I used to use 111-111-1111 as a general phone number for CVS card discounts. It stopped working several years ago though.
- kstrauser 1y agoI used 888-888-8888 at Target yesterday. Shhh.
- Waterluvian 1y agoAs a Canadian I was lost and confused when visiting the States (in the before time) and a gas pump asked for my zip code. So I put in the one and only zip code I know. I bet you can guess.
- enlightens 1y agoGlad you could come visit from Beverly Hills ;) EDIT: actually, depending on your age and what you watched on TV, maybe you were visiting from Boston?
- ethagnawl 1y agoDid it work?
- Waterluvian 1y agoYeah. Random numbers wouldn’t but it did. I assumed it had to be a valid zip code.
- farrisbris 1y agoIt probably did. I was in the us this summer and was similarly confused that the pump wanted a us zip code for a foreign card. I input the zip for the address i was staying at and it worked...
- ethagnawl 1y agoHuh. I'd always assumed the zip code was validated against the card's billing address but maybe it's actually for some kind of market research. I'll have to try myself.
- ethagnawl 1y agoFollowing up: I tried a valid but incorrect zip code recently and the transaction was declined. Presumably this is because there is a valid one associated with my account?
- DonHopkins 1y agoUbow Tubu Wobun Thrube Fubor? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHjMEwZt5OE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHjMEwZt5OE
- Waterluvian 1y agoClose! https://youtu.be/XanjZw5hPvE?si=Og-5iyLzjxebT6EF https://youtu.be/XanjZw5hPvE?si=Og-5iyLzjxebT6EF I was inputting for ages.
- s3graham 1y agoI used to use that one too, but you're supposed to put the 3 numerical digits of your postal code followed by 00. (I have no idea how you're supposed to know that though.)
- OJFord 1y agoReally? Or does that just work because it's numbers? I can't imagine how that's useful because without the letters the same 12300 could be in Vancouver or Montreal couldn't it?
- s3graham 1y agoI don't know much about credit card validation, but I have the impression that the zipcode is just one more correlation that tells them you're more likely to be the real owner of the card. If the 3 numbers I type match the 3 digits of the owner's postal code, it's probably a reasonable signal that I'm the owner (even without the letters).
- marssaxman 1y agoXXX-867-5309 still works everywhere I try it, where "XXX" is the local area code.
- davidcollantes 1y agoI have also used XXX-555-1212, and it has worked everywhere.
- ethagnawl 1y agoThis reminds me: I've noticed that Starbucks now requires a few pieces of information to use their WiFi network. One is email and they are doing some sort of validation which will reject emails like whoopsileanedonxxxxxxxx@aol.com but will accept other, legit AOL emails. How are they deciding what is/not a valid email? Are they using a compiled list of emails that have been seen in the wild? What if it's a brand new address, though? Presumably AOL isn't exposing a service for them to use in realtime. I haven't tested this extensively or with other providers. It's obvious that they care (to some extent) that they're getting valid emails, so why not use a basic regex on the FE and an OTP which gets sent to the provided address?
- toast0 1y ago> why not use a basic regex on the FE and an OTP which gets sent to the provided address? I can't prove I control an email in order to use your wifi, if I can't use your wifi.
- ethagnawl 1y agoThat's a great point. I guess I'm so conditioned to various 2FA methods that I take some amount of access (i.e. mobile) for granted.
- swores 1y agoSome wifi networks give you a limited number of minutes online during which you need to click a verification link they've emailed you in order to not get cut off.
- codedokode 1y agoThey can connect to a mail server and pretend that they are going to send a message and the server would reject the invalid recipient email.
- ethagnawl 1y agoI had no idea this was possible. This sounds almost like an HTTP OPTION request. I'd love to find an example of client code which does this.
- elcritch 1y agoLookup the stores phone number of maps. That usually works.