Comments on: Gold, stocks, magic beans... what to buy?

by: mysh

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:45:29 +0000

magetoo: Why would you google for a reverse zip code lookup page for zip codes in the US, when you can simply go to the source?
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown_zip.jsp

by: Popup

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:50:26 +0000

I know you won't believe this, but it has changed since this morning....
It used to say that it belonged to am "Annane Salumah, Internet Connections", on Navarra Str, with phone number +377.4431232 , postcode 13923, country Switzerland.
That phone number will take you to Monaco (But I can't find reverse-lookup for there.) The postcode is not valid in any of the countries I know of with 5-digit postcodes. And Ghana isn't in Switzerland.

The fact that they've updated the information today might mean something....

by: magetoo

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:40:21 +0000

Ghana, Switzerland? You lost me there. (Misread GH as CH?)

And both the address and phone number look reasonably genuine. It appears that Ghana doesn't use postal codes, so putting in a bogus one just to get past a registration form is only natural.

Only I'd have used something obviously false, like 00000. Or if that won't work, 10048 or something like that. (I looked through the first 50 or so Google hits without finding any decent Zip code reverse lookup pages, so I'll just tell you that 10048 is the WTC.)

by: Popup

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:30:28 +0000

> The Land Resource Et Cetera Web site, by the way, is
> registered in the well known city of Ghana, Switzerland.
Yes, and they have a Monaco phone number, and a 5-digit post code that's neither Swedish, French, Finnish, German, Italian, Serbian or US. (And I can't find any other countries with 5-digit post codes.)