Anyone remember?

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#41843 23-Sep-2009 22:42

Does anyone remember the name of the service where you could SMS someone's name and area of residence to learn more about them?

I told my friend about it and can't remember the name now.

Or does anyone know the number and I can search him!

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#257969 24-Sep-2009 08:11

Never heard of it..... where was it pulling that info from ? (Screams privacy issue)

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#257972 24-Sep-2009 08:14

I remember the adds on the radio a couple of years ago, from what I recalled they scrapped facebook/bebo etc for the information. So if you were easily found on the internet, then it was fairly accurate, but if you did not exist online, then it came up with complete rubbish.

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#257977 24-Sep-2009 08:33

LOL could have lots of fun with that then :)

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#257982 24-Sep-2009 09:02

Yea I remember that, croc of shyte really, cost 99c a text!!

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#258003 24-Sep-2009 09:57

i think it was called bongo, or somthing along that line

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#258034 24-Sep-2009 11:23

Oh yea Bongo is right cheers guys.

Yea a bit concerning ha!

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#258120 24-Sep-2009 16:58

pageweon: i think it was called bongo, or somthing along that line

It was scarily accurate.

I "borrowed" someone's phone at a function we were at, and we did a test with someone else in the room. All of the data that came back was correct.

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#258130 24-Sep-2009 17:30

I tried using it a few weeks ago didn't get a text back. It did give us some good information on some people though but at times it was wrong completely

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#258146 24-Sep-2009 18:37

Yeah, it found a photo of me which was taken at school where me and a couple of other girls where dressed up as a teacher, builder and nurse for some school article... It decided I was a teacher because of it :P