DIY Life Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Social insurance number - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_insurance_number

    A social insurance number card. Note the date of expiration, which implies that the holder is neither a permanent resident nor a Canadian citizen. A social insurance number (SIN) (French: numéro d'assurance sociale (NAS)) is a number issued in Canada to administer various government programs. The SIN was created in 1964 to serve as a client ...

  3. Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_telephone_number

    In North America, the area served by the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) system of area codes, fictitious telephone numbers are usually of the form (XXX) 555-xxxx. The use of 555 numbers in fiction, however, led a desire to assign some of them in the real world, and some of them are no longer suitable for use in fiction.

  4. List of fake news websites - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites

    Started in 2015, this fake news website is also designed to look like a local television outlet. Several of the website's fake stories have successfully spread on social media. Has the same IP address as Action News 3. [21] [309] [310] [305] [301] [302] TheRacketReport.com TheRacketReport.com Per PolitiFact. Has the same IP address as Action ...

  5. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

    help.aol.com/articles/protect-yourself-from...

    Call live aol support at. 1-800-358-4860. Get live expert help with your AOL needs—from email and passwords, technical questions, mobile email and more.

  6. 555 (telephone number) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)

    555 (telephone number) The telephone number prefix 555 is a central office code in the North American Numbering Plan, used as the leading part of a group of 10,000 telephone numbers, 555-...., in each numbering plan area (NPA) (area code). It has traditionally been used only for the provision of directory assistance, when dialing NPA-555-1212.

  7. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing

    Caller ID spoofing. Caller ID spoofing is a spoofing attack which causes the telephone network's Caller ID to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station. This can lead to a display showing a phone number different from that of the telephone from which the call was placed.

  8. Hot Lotto fraud scandal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Lotto_fraud_scandal

    The December 29, 2010, drawing of the multi-state lottery game Hot Lotto featured an advertised top prize of US$16.5 million. [20] On November 9, 2011, Philip Johnston, a resident of Quebec City, Canada, [4] phoned the Iowa Lottery to claim a ticket that had won the jackpot; stating he was too sick to claim the prize in person, he provided a 15-digit code that verified the winning ticket.

  9. Telephone numbers in Canada - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Canada

    Telephone number representation. Canadian (and other North American Numbering Plan) telephone numbers are usually written as (NPA) NXX-XXXX. For example, 250 555 0199, a fictional number, could be written as (250) 555-0199, 250-555-0199, 250-5550199, or 250/555-0199. The Government of Canada's Translation Bureau recommends using hyphens between ...