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Re:She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pr... by obilgic on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:11AM (#23270802)
tldr: His number was leaked, he got rid of it, the person who just got the number is dealing with bunch of random people who think they found elon's # online.
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Re:She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pr... by midasz on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:17AM (#23270841)
AT&T should just retire the number at that point right
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Re:She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pr... by fastball on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:26AM (#23270900)
There aren't that many phone numbers where it's reasonable to retire them willy-nilly (given the desire to have consistent "area codes").
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Re:She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pr... by techbio on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:31AM (#23270946)
Slippery-slope? Do it for one billionaire, you might have to do it for all of them...
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Re:She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pr... by mehrdadn on Friday May 22, 2020 @07:35AM (#23270983)
You don't have to retire them for all eternity, just long enough that it stops getting a lot of contact.
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Re:She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pr... by macintux on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:25AM (#23271328)
Judging by Elon’s reaction, it’s been out of his hands for many years.
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Re:She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pr... by mehrdadn on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:29AM (#23271352)
Well, longer then. And I imagine it's been active that many years, not getting "this subscriber is no longer available" or whatever.
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Re:She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pr... by iso1631 on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:13AM (#23271257)
Or auction it off, I'm sure someone will buy it. Some people are quite happy having 867-5309 for example.

Indeed I wonder if the current owner is doing this piece with the idea she might auction it

https://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/03/ebay.jennys...

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