To find the 63333 text that tells you everything about you

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A bit weird. I haven't tried it, but I have seen posts on facebook of other peoples and it just seems a bit weird that you get a text telling you some things about you and what you do. Has anyone ever tried it?

I know someone that works for them.

Sounds like a hoax. Have you looked at smiles or hoaxslayer?

How does it work?

Snopes I meant and I it appears I am wrong anyway.

Buzz - I haven't heard of either of them. are they similar?

Why would I text presumably a premium rate number to find out about me? I know everything there is to know about me. Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid!

THat number is dreams, lotto prediction, and horoscopes. Definatly not worth £1.50 a text, when you can get that for free.

The people that work for them basically get paid to google things, the same number used to be for answering weird questions I think.

They have to be online at certain times to get the requests, then google things and send replies.

Oh I see how it works now. They got my brother wrong. They said he was an overweight Irish man. He was born and brought up in Scotland and weighs 9st.

Sorry Op Snopes and hoaxslayer are sites that inform you about scams and hoaxes. I have googled 63333 and they appear to be a money making company that will send you weather, horriblescopes,dating etc. Just another pathetic site for people who can't make their own decisions or look out of a window it seems?

I used to work for them too. It's either made up or google stalkery. The number is 63336 BTW.

I miss it TBH :( had to give up due to stress over leaving XP and I don't think they'd take me back on now.

TBH, I'm guessing it died a death really when smartphones became more commonplace. When I worked for them it was pre-iPhone and mobile internet was basically pointless.

I didnt know anything about it until the last few weeks. I thought it was a new trend

How did you get to work for them Yoni? Was it a fun job?

I worked for them for a while.

Occasionally they recruit, when I did it you had to do an online interview (may have been a phone one) and then you work when it suits you.

They paid 30p per answer- this was in the pre smart phone era and I'm amazed people still use it.
I think i used to earn about £100-£150 per month but it was a lot of time and effort for that return. I worked most evenings. In the end, because I had a full time job, filling in the tax returns was too much hassle so I stopped.
The ones that used to make me laugh were the texts asking for the lottery results. So they'd spend £1 on a ticket and another £1.50 finding they hadn't won the results.

I also used to work for them - joined 8 years ago, when, as Yoni said, smartphones didn't exist. At one point I was earning about £400 a month - for about 30 hrs work a week - which is pretty crap when you think about it. I "justified" it to myself because at the time, traditional jobs which would have involved commuting costs and childcare would left me with about the same sum, but nonetheless it was rather soul destroying. In more recent years, I ended up earning about £150 a month which was crushing ..... and it was also the case that the majority of available questions were most prevalent in the evenings/nights and at the weekends, so it pretty much destroyed family life.

When I joined, you had to have a degree. Don't know if that's true any more. I gave up when I'd had enough of being treated like slave labour. It made me laugh when you had to maintain exacting standards - and at one time, were checked up on pretty strictly - yet were sometimes earning in effect £1 or £2 an hour. In fact, I still feel pretty foolish for continuing to work for them as long as I did - but you end up in this mindset where you worry about the work you "might miss" if you don't log on. You also used to get double rates on Xmas, NYE etc when I started - but that was withdrawn in latter years too.

Back to the OP - yes, all this "we'll tell you all about you" crap is Googling - 192.com, LinkedIn, Facebook (amazing how many people don't make their accounts private), or simply Googling the name and location. If you really couldn't find anything you'd either make it up or give them some rubbish about what their name means etc.

Catsmother, I found the 'reviews' totally depressing and demoralising and patronising the idea that exemplary grammar was needed to reply to texts makes me laugh now. Also the house style that had to be adhered to used to drive me mad.

I totally agree with you about the 'must log on' mindset. I wish I'd stopped sooner.

Wow, it's interesting to hear what went on 'behind the curtain' as it were. I have always wondered why people text these lines, and the ones which give you a percentage compatibility for someone you fancy (for only £1.50 !)

I used to like it. It was fun. I didn't have a degree but passed the grammar test so it was ok. I was just using it for supplementary income rather than as a real job. I used to look forward to the feedback and I like trying to emulate a style so that worked for me too. They used to recruit semi regularly but hardly ever do now.

Although, HMRC still think I owe them NI even though I wasn't earning enough and won't accept that I can't remember when I stopped being self employed because it was almost 5 years ago

If you send me £25 then I'll predict whether your next child will be a boy or girl. I'll refund money if I'm wrong.

Apparently that was a genuine one back in the 70s, at £5 a go, advertised in papers and was rolling the money in.