• OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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    So a random person on Reddit claimed there’s about 800 million possible uk mobile numbers, some people have multiple numbers so ballpark 80 million active phone numbers. This gives around a 1:10 chance of picking an active number at random. If there’s actual patterns in the numbers this could be even more likely.

    What’s interesting is this won’t have been a realistic sounding number.

    Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07… Something.

    So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.

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      So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.

      You say that as if there’s any other way.

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      What’s interesting is this won’t have been a realistic sounding number.

      Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07… Something.

      So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.

      Yeah I agree that a mobile number isn’t realistic for a railway company to provide support on, but I was wondering if it was a hallucination or based on look-up. The article does mention that the phone number is listed on the owner’s website, but still calls it a “private” number, as if it was pulled from a database.