"Your SIM card has a name" hoax busted

If you are a regular user of Facebook, you may have already noticed a trick which probably many of your firends are posting, it says Every SIM CARD has a name. What's Your sim card name? and in the comments you can see hundreds or people discovering their mobile names which actually tag to real facebook people.

Every SIM CARD has a name. Try this:

1st step : from your mobile number number, take the last 3 numbers. Example- 9830120684, take "684"only

2nd step: Write this @*[684:0] in the comment box below, replacing the 3 numbers      with your own.

3rd step: remove the * sign and press enter in the comment box

As the way phone numbers are generated, it is quite obvious that a lot of people have t he same last digits so the UNIQUE NAME thing is all nonsense.


But how is this happening? Actually this is an old method(coding style) which facebook used to tag its users in its beta stage. As for example @[4:0] tags Mark Zuckerburg, the founder of Facebook. I have no idea why we cant tag anyone using the numbers 1, 2 and 3. Probably this is because, the first three numbers were used for beta testing.
Now who are those people whom we tag using the three digits? They are the very first persons to create accounts on Facebook.


So tag using any combination of three digit numbers as this is really funny(i tried this all evening) without worrying as this ain't anyways related to your cell phone or sim.