Ever wondered if you knew everything about your friends, or do you want to get some information on your potential date before you ask the question?
Well now you can thanks to Bongo. By simply texting your targets name and age to 66668, Bongo will text you back with some information on them.
I've done this on myself and I thought it was just pulling information off Facebook/Google, so I sent a text with my mothers name and age to them and was surprised to get a response back with accurate information even though she does not have anything like Facebook. I don't even think my mother knows how to use a computer.
Texts to this number will cost you around £1.50 every time you use it so it's up to you to decide whether you want to get some details on your friends that badly.
Personally I want to work out how this tool gets such accurate information. Is this breaking data protection laws or not?? That I’ll leave up to you to decide…just let me know when you do!
Source: Bongo
25 thoughts on “Bongo: Discover all your friend’s secrets”
Gotta be against the DP laws tbh.
They require that everyone who holds or transfers data about people needs to register with them, and I cannot see them agreeing to this, without some heavy stipulations.
There also has to be some way for anyone who wants to contact these people and request anything they might have on their computers about them – where does that info come from?
Naw, looks like it might just be breaking the law tbh, though I am no lawyer.
I think your right about them breaking data protection laws because I just don’t understand how they are getting this type of data.
But then again, surely before they set this up they would have checked into this if they were breaking any laws?
I don’t know? Can anyone else shed anymore light on this?
They could be pulling stuff off public databases like the electoral register or the car registration list? There are lots of places you can get information off people that are not private – even if they’re not hooked into Google. I don’t know about the legality of it or not though (I’m not a lawyer!)
I WILL TELL YOU THE SECRET, BEFORE BONGO WAS DEVELOPED THE COMPANY WENT TO THE GOVERMENT ASKING IF THERE WAS ANY WAY THAT THEY COULD USE THE LOW PRIORTY RECORDINGS OF YOU. I CAN HONESTLY SWARE THAT BONGO BRAKES NO LAWS AND IT IS PERFECTLY LEGAL AND WE HAVE ONLY RECORDS OF YOUR NAME, ADRESS, FACTS AND THE US AND UK GOVERMENT SUPPLYED US WITH SOME OTHE PERSONAL DETAILS. YOU CAN CHECK WHAT WE HAVE ABOUT YOU BY TEXTING WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT NAME TO 66668
obviously after asking that you would still need to put your age and town city as there might be another same name as you.. i admit it’s freaky, but there stuff that google facebook bebo tagged electoral register or the car registration government just dont have !! im sure puzzled !! and my phone credit is lowering fast!!! im hooked lol
urm..
neither government have personal information about you. they don’t know your personality or your feelings towards anyone, i.e. if you have a crush on somebody.
I think it probably scans the internet. Perhaps it can track old comments and messages sent over the net too? I tried it and I got:
“Bongo knows Heather (my surname) who is a sexy young brunette who is well known at (name of my school) for her positive attitude- commited to her boyfriend!”
This info has obviously been lifted from my bebo profile. On it, I’ve said that I try to be an optimist, and also my dedication towards my boyfriend is conveyed on my profile, and there are pics and such on it too. It appears that they just scan the net…
i dont know where bongo gets its info but its freaky
omg. this is so scary, i asked it who i liked, and it gave me his FULL NAME. and it was right :s and i havent written it ANYWHERE over the internet! and neither has anyone else? how could it possibly know that! and the first time someone texted it for me, it said ”im not dumb. this isnt chelsea” omg. and then when i texted some of it it came back with his name… scary
It should be soo much cheaper like if yah have free texts it should be free
Bongo is acc so scary! knows so much about me that other people dont know. Maybe it’s an alien :D
people i study physcology bongo is there to make money out of you and do have your details, otherwise how else would they know about you. My credit has sure run low with them in the past but it hasn’t got me no where. They have brought me down, and are not ppl you cant truast do you know them, n how exactly do they know you. They can link your mobiles to any website on the iternet, so of the stuff they say is true, but the rest they put any random stuff to try and confuse you and completly brain wash you so that you make belief.
ITS CONNECTED TO FACEBOOK SO IT LOOKS AT YOUR PICTURE AND CAN SEE WHO YOUR IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH ON FACEBOOK, AND YE
This is damn easy to explain. You send a request with a cellphone… wich is usually what you use to text people. They can track your message with your phone compagny or something like that. There is so many ways now to learn about anyone. Yeah some are illegals, but, how can you find any proof?
So yeah. Live with it it’s th new era. They are spying us…. ya right, just like if they really needed to know about each of you -_-‘
my daughter and her friends have been txting this number not relising they r being charged i am sure this is not excceptable re data protection please email me back with a answer please
i personally think you put your school/collage in and it traces past test papers youve done ect… i do a diploma at school and most work is is groups atm and what had been sent off said about us and bongo new that! i also think its my geography teacher :)
bongo uses social networking sites to figure out personal info about you. my friend text bongo and her reply from them was that she was a brunette fashionista…which is exactly what i posted on her facebook wall..another friend has long blonde hair ans a slight fiure which shows in her facebook picture…they looked at her profile she is exactly that..they will also look at the likes you have,comments,statuses,pictures and horoscopes. its a scam and takes 1.50 of your credit.
what if they have not got facebook? or don’t even know how to use a computer eg. my dad! <3
the truth is every text u send and everything you do is kept in a missive database or satalite for i think it is up to 10 years therefor they can see what u have been texting also it may search things like facebook and bebo ect to see how long u have been with a bf/gf or single whatever then make educated guesses. simple although im not sure but i think none of this is illegal
It isn’t pulled from the internet.
My friend did it today, for the first time, and it told him who he liked… stuff that no one but him new, hadn’t been on the internet, and couldn’t have possibly been able to guess.
This has to be against the law=/
this is FREAKY but the way they do it is clearly by scanning the internet i tried it and it said somethin like _______ ________ you are very sporty and healthy, can keep going for along time and run a race well. now if you search my name on google thats what comes up????
Well I text them and didn’t even get a reply….
1.50?! that is a rip off!!!!
Can i ask questions for free anywhere?
It didn’t know anything about me. I text it twice and all I got was “Bongo knows John Paul is old enough to know better, but still young enough to try and get away with it anyway! This is why all the girls go crazy for him!” and then the next one was “Bongo knows John!! He is such a tough guy that he should be a postage stamp because that is the only way he will ever get licked!! What a Stud Muffin!!” I’m on Facebook and stuff but they still got nothing on me. I feel really let down by that.