Three years ago I posted about the real phone number (i.e. not a “555”) used towards the end of the movie “Sneakers.” I had heard various stories about the phone number: that it was one that PacBell believed wouldn’t be used for a number of years (though they were wrong after pagers, cell phones, tech businesses, etc proliferation ran over all estimates), that it forwarded it to the IRS, and that there was an answering machine for the fictional “Sneakers” security company. This week I received email from someone who says he memorized the number when he watched the movie and called it afterwards. He writes: “it was indeed a pager number, and, it had the voice of the
actress (i can’t remember her name). it just said ‘hi, you’ve reached (whatever her name was), or deana from the movie sneakers – leave a message’. no joke, no irs deal – but thought it was interesting.”