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Not necessarily. Do we know every single number in the 3.8B is unique? I’ve seen zero proof of that, but maybe I missed it.


I'm pretty sure that would qualify as the number being "made up".

If anyone disagrees, I'm happy to sell my database of 100B valid phone numbers.


> I'm pretty sure that would qualify as the number being "made up".

Not necessarily. Let me give you an example, if there’s other metadata included with a specific contact list entry, it would be valuable to have duplicate numbers, as that extra metadata could then be leveraged potentially.




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