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Which is also why you should use a fake phone number, name, etc for those loyalty cards.

Also a neat trick is to just (XYZ)-867-5309 as someone already signed up with the number from that song and it’s not a real number.




It's a real number in the 401 area code.

https://www.askgem.com/

See the contact info in the lower left of the page.


I agree that "gaming the system" is usually the most practicable way to deal with this stuff in real life, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be sorted out on a more principled basis eventually.




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