Details of the phone number:
Jessica Brown N Lotus Ave Chicago Illinois
Googling “Jessica Brown” “N Lotus Ave” Chicago Illinois, this page pops up:
www.linkedin.com/in/jessicabrown10/
Quote from LI profile: Development Director at The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights University of Chicago
Can’t say if it’s the same person, though. Weird coincidence, I should think.
so according to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/3zgeib/found_false_phone_numbers_on_hodges_directory/ something odd is going on with Hodges Directory. Personally I'm not too sure what to make of this one, but fwiw, I happen to live in chicago practically right next to UChicago and a couple of my family members are employed there. If that linkedin info is accurate, it is quite odd that she happens to work for The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights. I kinda doubt that my going there and looking around would produce any useful results, but I'm certainly willing to if someone makes a compelling case for deeper investigation on this.
"There used to be a "directory" online that was completely randomized combinations of real people's information specifically to confuse scammers and web crawlers. I thought it was Hodges but I can't find anywhere that says it anymore."
I have seen the directory (actually as I recall, there was more than 1) that this guy is talking about also, but I've been trying to find it unsuccessfully for the past 30 minutes. That particular directory was very clear about the fact that all the listings were fabricated data to confuse scammers. I just wish I could remember the damn name. I found it at the time because I had googled my own cell phone number and ran across such a result, as many people from that thread seem to have experienced.
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horse-with-a-name ago
Googling for the phone number leads to this page:
http://hodges-directory.us/directory.php?q=3dt0-312-543-5737-Chicago-Illinois-S-Coles-Ave
Details of the phone number: Jessica Brown N Lotus Ave Chicago Illinois
Googling “Jessica Brown” “N Lotus Ave” Chicago Illinois, this page pops up:
www.linkedin.com/in/jessicabrown10/
Quote from LI profile: Development Director at The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights University of Chicago
Can’t say if it’s the same person, though. Weird coincidence, I should think.
EDITED: This page http://www.cityfreq.com/phone/312543.html lists a completely different name, though: 312-543-1456 is LEORA LORENCE. How can this be?
mathemagician33 ago
so according to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/3zgeib/found_false_phone_numbers_on_hodges_directory/ something odd is going on with Hodges Directory. Personally I'm not too sure what to make of this one, but fwiw, I happen to live in chicago practically right next to UChicago and a couple of my family members are employed there. If that linkedin info is accurate, it is quite odd that she happens to work for The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights. I kinda doubt that my going there and looking around would produce any useful results, but I'm certainly willing to if someone makes a compelling case for deeper investigation on this.
Newfind ago
Interesting. Maybe they are spoofing numbers somehow.
mathemagician33 ago
did you see this post on that reddit thread? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/3zgeib/found_false_phone_numbers_on_hodges_directory/d4l3opc/
I have seen the directory (actually as I recall, there was more than 1) that this guy is talking about also, but I've been trying to find it unsuccessfully for the past 30 minutes. That particular directory was very clear about the fact that all the listings were fabricated data to confuse scammers. I just wish I could remember the damn name. I found it at the time because I had googled my own cell phone number and ran across such a result, as many people from that thread seem to have experienced.
Nana66 ago
I have encountered at least one of these while searching to find who's number called me. I was always curious why this existed.