"fake" numbers outside US

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From: Bill Hofmann
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 05:50

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In the United States and Canada (World Zone 1 to be more precise), when
you want to represent a phone number without the risk of it being an
actual valid phone number, you choose a number of the form "555-xxxx", for
instance, "1-510-555-1234".

Do any of the participants in other countries know of similar conventions
in their or other countries?  Thanks in advance...

-Bill

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