Do you ever save someone's phone number, but after a few weeks you forget it and can't remember who it is? Some people in India thought they were facing a similar problem. However, unexpected findings revealed that a large number of mobile device users had an unknown phone number implemented in their contacts that no one knows anything about. How is this possible?
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The strange fact was revealed late last week when a large number of people in India reported the problem either to their carrier or on Twitter in an attempt to get an answer. Each of the users denies that they wrote down or uploaded this number manually. But strangely, none of the telcos have come up with an answer to this strange incident.
This is a few years old UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) system number from New Delhi. The number in the form of 1-800-300-1947 first began to appear mysteriously to owners of Android devices, but after some time the contact with this number also appeared in iOS. On iPhones, this only happened if the owner transferred the numbers from a previous phone with the Android operating system.
Strange phone number in saved contacts reported by hundreds of Indian smartphone users.
The UIDAI system was introduced back in 2009 by the government itself, and its main task was to randomly generate 12-digit numbers associated with identification in various databases. This option was supposed to prevent identity theft and secure private profiles and accounts on individual domains. The government denies any wrongdoing in the matter, while the UIDAI shares the same statement. According to analysts and specialists, the telecommunications agency may be responsible for the implementation of the number, which, like a few years ago, Vodaphone, uploaded the number to the device without the owner's knowledge. During the investigation of this case, accusations were also made against Google, which eventually confessed to introducing the number into mobile directories.
According to Google, this number was coded into the system back in 2014, along with the number for the first aid line. The inclusion of these two numbers was intended to help with quick orientation in crisis situations. "We apologize for any problems we may have caused by our actions. We would like to assure all users that this is not a situation of unauthorized access to mobile devices," a Google spokesperson said in a subsequent statement.
