Saturday, August 4, 2018

A strange phone number creeped into Indian contact lists, and no one knows why

Smartphone users in India are demanding answers after people on Twitter began posting screenshots of their phones’ contact lists with a strange number included in it. Users are claiming that they didn’t add the contact to their devices, and no one company or person knows how it got there in the first place.

The contact, 1-800-300-1947, is an old toll-free number for the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), and it’s been showing up in contacts lists originating from Android devices. The same number has showed up on iPhones as well, but only if its owner imported those contacts from an Android device before. People are just now widely noticing the number’s inclusion, but it’s uncertain when this contact was first forced onto...

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