They'd just have some people sitting around responding manually after checking Google and various other databases and so on.

a number of intelligent human researchers and a very sophisticated software application with a huge database.

199 rip off more like it

$3 a SMS...why not Goggle it yourself and save $3

Send in the question and ask, "Who is a scam artist? And they will come back with, WE ARE

would it work for 'non famous' people too, like people why wouldnt be on google?

They could look you up on something like Schoolfriends?

I recently sent a message to this service with my name and they came back with very accurate information.

I was so stunned by this that I decided to try my grandmother's name who was around my house at the time. She is about 75 years old and quite 'big' for a better word.

Minutes later, Bongo replied;
'Kate wears sexy lingerie and once kissed her best friend when she was younger. Now that she is grown up, she prefers to kiss boys. Great cans!'

The look on my grandmother's face was absolutely priceless!

I really don't know what to believe... If this Bongo character knows everything about me, maybe the stuff about her is true!!

A very creepy experience to say the least...

how da hell does bongo no about me my friends who i lyk n why is it so correct its freaky lol

duuude this bongo fingy is da shizz lol its pretty funny but cool...full trippy and so accurate it full knows like who i like and stuff lol full crush n shit ay ladskis

bongo is krappi it told me i was gon get married 3 times n that i demand 2 much of guys.. wen my boyf gets away wif everything lmao... im so easy going. stupid waste of money

you people are saying type your name in google and the same thing will come up.
your wrong the only one of my friends who have ever come up on google was a boxing champion in england and australia and then still the information was scarse, i beleive bongo has lots of resoucres but i still cant figure it out.
but i WANT TO KNOW!.

i typed my name in google and nothing about me at all came up. 98% of what bongo sent back has been true but in the last msg it told me i woulod live till i was 88 wtf my b/f had a fight coz it said i love to chase guys and he belives it where do they get there info from???

80751

Where can i meet your grandmother? lol

They're just playing the odds.

this is so true!!! everything that come back about my friends and i was true!
Its really feraky!!! like someone is watching!!!!

sick you piece of poop

we put my friends name n it sed evrythin like she plays tennis at maloolah n has a strong fore arm n she hasnt got over her first crush (all true)

who am i Kate Bartolo

okay let me clear it for you.
the way bongo works. Google.. NO! when you text their data base. your allowing them to have insight into the database of your cell phone.
a.k.a they can read sent/received text messages, and quickly scan for important and relevant messages.
i read up in the convo that it said it knew she wasnt over someones boyfriend, the reason for this is she may have messaged some one saying it. or something to do about it. and once you have texted them once, it saves your information and any one of your friends names so if they message it will include you in their message making it seem more real

freaky i know
but for 3.50 its pretty sweet.

Sorry to let you know but I used a friends phone that has absolutely no info about me on it and it came back with information that I had only posted on the net several hours earlier. I checked google and nada.

Where'd you post the info? Very easy to track people down on MySpace for example.

MINE IS FREAKY AS !
It came back with ' looks at her reflection alot , can b overly dramtic when i want my way , bes careful who i hang with , will never be seen without make up on '

Its true a look at my reflection alot , HOW would they now that ?

You're female??

This Bongo thing feaks me out.... someone tell me how it works damn u!!!
it knew shit bout me and my exboyfrend... and about my friend who died a few months ago :(

i dnt undastand lol

they hav thier own database
if u also do a search
ull find somethign similar aout u
n they do coe into ur phone n quickly scan sms or ur friends or whoeber/watva
these ppl r smart money makin business!

these people thinking they know all, bongo musnt find information through going into your phone...when i textd my name everything they txtd was 100% true and they bought up the daughter of a family friend and her feelings towards me who i have never txtd anything about!!! to anyone!!! and also named specifically the sports team i had been involved with years ago which i cant be connected to as i was only a tempo im not listed in there website or anything!!!


so they txtd saying that people find me aggressive when drunk which i must admit i am...how do they know characteristics like that as i dont exactly advertise that in my txts to friends!

also in my information they bought up my brother saying he would do anything for me, we are very close and he would but they called him by his full name!

this whole thing is creepy as hell and if you ask me these people who run this service are pretty sick in what they do. getting kicks off knowing all about other people. and why dont they have an informative website, this is fu*ked. but yes very addictive and interesting

you can not say this is just a google search. there is more than that. When I sent my info, they sent back specific information, but possible to find on the net. When my gf tried it, they sent back general info "very attractive" but then this freaked me out, MY name came up! HOW DOES BONGO NO ME N HER KNOW EACH OTHER??? i spent HOURS on google, n could find hardly anything bout her, n there is nothing to suggest that im going out with her on any of my stuff. this freaks me out

ok this wholr bongothing s fully scaring me... for starters... bongo told me the dates that my friend went over seas and when she come back... that scared me alot... secondly i entered my dads name and it said things about how he told one of my friends that he would do almost anything for money... this was posted nowhere on the net, nor txt to any1, how do these people know these things????

i think that the goverment may be keeping a closer eye on us than what we think... is this all just a big plot scammed up by the goverment?

Bongo is a scam, I sent my name in once and got 10 sms back from them. When I saw my bill they were from $3.50 each - not $3! I had to get them blocked from my phone. I think there is a cheaper one out there too but I'm too afraid of another scam.

Fuck this bongo thing is freaky...I sent my name and suburb..and all this stuff came back that was easily googled...but then i sent back a msg going...no thats not true and it wrote back
"Bongo also knows that you are wearing a black dress!!! I was like...Fuck!!! how freaky, shit i thought i was being STALKED!!!!
Now how would they know what i was wearing...i dont have photos on the internet infact i hate wearing dresses i just happen to be wearing a black dress that night...
how freaky!!!!

This thing is CRAP and a waste of money!!!!!

Why on earth would you waste $30 even trying this? Anyone can see it's a scam from the beginning.

bongo is so freaky. how the hell did it know that i dnt speak to my parents. iv neva sent a msg about it to anyone, nor is it on the net. it also says il be a psychologist one day and thats what im currently studyuing. it also mentioned the name of my 2 nephews, whic really freakd me out.

the whole bongo thing is freaking me out to i only found out about it this morning from my bf who txt his name to it & it came back with stuff about me
when i did it all the information was right
how do they do it i dont believe its google
& is it legal

Did it also mention that Bongo uses google searches to find threads about itself, then make favourable comments to increase usage? And did it say that yazmin and jac do that as part of the most pointless job ib history? Wow - that's freaky!

if you read the thread up there ^^^^ it'll say exactly.

I did try it out using my name, it said that my favourite teacher in primary school was "Mrs Hamish" which was false [name changed]

Then I looked up my name on google and sure enough the name of my english teacher was wrong! And it said on the internet that my english teacher's name was "Mrs Hamish".

stop wasting your money on this.

why do you need someone telling yourself about you anyway?

jacenta, im quite confident your talking cr*p about bongo saying you were wearing a black dress... and if he did pure coinsidence!!!! GET OVER IT!!!!!!

does anyone know how to stop bongo?
man its eating my credit =[

please let me know

thanx.

BONGO rox it told me i was on the shitter when i was now thats cool.
It even told me the colour was brown now how did bongo know that ?

is bongo legal ? why does bongo xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx do it all about it in the house it is all abbout it in the computer

199 BONGO is an idiot test. You won!

hey do u guys all realise that there are others out there that control this world and know everything about us. maybe they are slowly coming out with it

ps see how the last 3 posts were posted just a few hours ago? but the ones b4 that were last year? how do u explain that? i am going to figure this life out soon

does anyone know how to stop BONGO txt messenging me?
because everytime he msg's me it costs me $2 for doing nothing.

Beware of sending messages to 199 BONGO unless you are prepared to get numerous unsolicited replies for which you will be charged (to your telephone account) $4.54 for each message

Hi, does anyone who claims that Bongo enters your phone and reads your sms inbox/outbox have a source for this information??? I'd like to get that claim from an official source.

this thing is scary as, it knew my friend likes to sit in the back of his english classrooom... nobody posts stuff like that on the internet and it said my maths teacher was a well liked teacher among the students of --------[my school]---------. which is all true. who sends txts sayin hey im sittin in da back of english???

it knew nothing abt me,, but a lot abt my friends!! freaky as!! i believe in it!!! i also believe it is a scam to get money,, but a scam tht is freakyly tru~~~

If you use a site like face book and send a private message they can read them.
Google will not give the details that they have.
Where do you think the info you save on those sites is stored?

Its all about business's making money, facebook and others just sell your info.

Omg I love It, I sent me Everything true and It said I had a cute smile. I LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT

I heard they go through E-mails and can read stuff about you!!!

I so hope someone said I have a cute smile LOL!!!!

It also said my bro was some doctor in America in some Fancy Hotel...... He's only 15 and lives in QLD LOL :D

Bongo was a stupid rip off!! grrr and i texted it last nyt and i had 7pnd left and 2day i woke up with a text from them and iv got 4pound What a scam!
Does anyone know how to stop this cuz its wasting all ma cred ha!?
Plzzzzzzzzz tell me!!

Services like these are actually a complete waste of money and time. It's fun to send it once but it's not good if you get hooked on it.

If they keep sending you msgs, then you should send them a replying saying "stop sending me msgs and get ******" or call the police.

Actually I think you can sue them for charging you for things you didn't ask for.

Don't waste the time of the Police by calling regarding this cr*p.

i love this thread

Really? It pains me.

This thread confirms to me that this world is full of stupid people....




Cole Sear: I see stupid people.
Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams?
[Cole shakes his head no]
Malcolm Crowe: While you're awake?
[Cole nods]
Malcolm Crowe: Stupid people...
Cole Sear: Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're stupid.
Malcolm Crowe: How often do you see them?
Cole Sear: All the time. They're everywhere.

its myspace

i did it and typed my name in but put my age as 18 which i am but my myspace says im 19 !! dnt ask y ha !!

it sent me info about a girl tht wasnt me and then wen i changed the name it sounded more like me !!

it explained i have long blonde hair and a tan !! nowdays my hair is dark :S !!

but on my myspace pik its blonde !!

it also sadi my friend enjoyd skiing and lone behold her pic on myspace is of her skiing !!

so chaps its al down the genious of a myspace search engine

xxx

i did it and typed my name in but put my age as 18 which i am but my myspace says im 19 !! dnt ask y ha !!

it sent me info about a girl tht wasnt me and then wen i changed the name it sounded more like me !!

it explained i have long blonde hair and a tan !! nowdays my hair is dark :S !!

but on my myspace pik its blonde !!

it also sadi my friend enjoyd skiing and lone behold her pic on myspace is of her skiing !!

so chaps its al down the genious of a myspace search engine

xxx

So, you just paid money to have someone go to your MySpace page and describe it via text message... Congratulations, you should be a great chance to win a Darwin Award in the future.

i tried it before hand cosw there is loads of hype about it !

please dnt tlk to me like im stupid !

hehehe...and that my friends..is why i love it :)

There's loads of hype today about voluntary euthanasia, but are you going to try that? ;)

get a grip haha !

dnt take ur life so seriously man !

I tried voluntary euthanasia, (199dead) and its just info from a medical dictionary..its crap...they just tell you how your heart beats...and where your blood goes n stuff.

I texted 199dead and they just said i was a carbon based life form and if i wanted to be dead i just needed to stop my heart from beating etc...its all crap

by the way...woohoo, my true love partner is named Britney....damn she is 80% likely to cheat on me, oh well...back to texting 199dead.

:)

Well, tried it today (on someone else's phone hehe), and it works pretty well. Thing is, the one person who didn't have myspace, facebook or anything didn't come up properly.
Yeah, it's a rip off, but it's so damn cool. I wouldn't bother trying unless you can persuade an unsuspecting victim :P

As for finding the information, people are suggesting the GPS in your phone, myspace, facebook, bebo (all internet info sites), msn could be possible. As for clothes, and knowing you're in the toilet, don't know, it seems too exact to be believable.

Just been looking round Yahoo! Answers. Looks like it's all down to MySpace. I suggest anything more exact like clothes you're wearing and exact position is people telling you a load of rubbish.

Your phone has a GPS? Most don't.

if you text who likes to 199 BONGO. it tells you who likes you.

mine come up with
"one is athletic and tall, and another is very sociable"

the athletic and tall one is a guy that likes me that i know likes me

i think that the "sociable" bit is just a scam as anyone can be 'sociable'.

its an addictive thing though as long as you don't use your phone to send the messages of as they're $3 a pop. haha

how does it know it though. somtimes its completely right and someimes it makes up absoulte bullshitt.
someone tell me.
and it reply too fastt to know that much stuff about you :S

we sent one away and it came back with someone else we knew in the message...creepy as

i did bongo in grade five and i didnt have any myspace! it said i was a keen swimmer who swims with the south gisborne sharks and swims with ******* .. not really that hard to trace i spose tho.

its alittle creepy.
my brothers friend did it for my brother.
and it came back with that my brother was a guitarist and a singer. it had my brothers age. and that he planned to go to europe in the coming years. it also had my name in it aswell.
and my brother friend doesnt even have my brothers number so he has never txtd him before. and as for how i got into the messege i dont even know my brothers friend.
and none of this information is on the interenet!?

Stop this Garbage.
I did the 199Bongo thing this morning and it told me that I was going to go and watch my daughter play in the Seaton vs Croydon under 9s soccer game this morning and I did.
Bongo also told me they would loose 3-2 and they did. The text also said she wouldn't be the best player and she wasn't.
The text went on to say that I live at 742 Evergreen Terrace and I do.
It also told me that I will be a vegetarian/vegetable which ever comes first.......

Sturty,

I'll correct your post:

I did the Bong thing this morning and after it I told me missus that I was going to go and watch my daughter play in the Seaton vs Croydon under 9s soccer game this morning and I did.

After the Bong I also lost 3.2 hours. I don't remember if she was the best player or even played. We couldn't find the oval..

After the game for some reason I went to 742 Evergreen Terrace. It was told by some fat bald man choking a kid that I was there to collect the green vegetable matter.

I then had another Bong...

Remember TR, say no to Drugs......

bigg up bongooooo!!

it is very scary, i have idea where they get the information, it only costs me 25 cence, and even though you may deny whats been said its true.

Hollie Whitaker

I AM BONGO. I know that Dale recently spent heaps texting Bongo.

can you please tell me about my life
i wanna know what goes and what my love life is about
and where i am going to be in a couple of years time!!


thanx TAMEKA FORD

You are going to text Bongo until you are destitute, caught stealing, and sent to prison. Enjoy.

and you'll walk the streets for money and you wont care if its wrong or if its right.....

OMG, this bongo thig is freaky! ever seen the movie eagle eye?? Its like tye have one of thse computer things! lolz.
I sent in the name of my friend and it came back exactly this: (names changed lolz)

Amy teller is a devoted member of the carrum united soccar club and is best mates with Terran lands.
tamara Walters thinks Amy is overompetetive.

This is all true!! How culd they know that.
And I asked Tamara what she thinks of Amy as a soccar pkayer and she said that she thinks shes overcompetetive.
FREAKY MUCH!!!

and it mention friends from years ago and events that have happened and family members.

Im so freaked right now.

And when I out it my name it said what bus I catch in the morning and what time.

STALKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

overompetetive: when some one is not quite competitive nor repetitive at the same time.

soccar: motorsport where contestants compete against one another driving their vehicles around a circuit whilst wearing blindfolds made of socks.

i sent kent brockman to bongo...it said..

Sarcastic
smartarse
pedant
hilarious

amazing huh lol :)

BONGO AS A COMPANY USE FACE-BOOK MY-SPACE PUBLIC ACCESS INFORMATION PUBLIC ACCESS SUBSCRIPTION WEBSITE EG- ELECTORAL ROLL IT DOES NOT SCAN TEXT IF YOU SEND TEXT HAVE A LOOK AT UR DATA OR 3 G MONITOR IT DOES NOT ACTIVATE NOR IS THERE A 3G NEXT ACTIVE CONNECTION OR ANY CHANGE IN YOUR GPRS COUNT , IT IS 100% LEGAL , THE TRICK IS IN THE SOFTWARE AND SPEED OF THE SEARCH, EG SEARCHING PUBLIC ACCESS INFORMATION LIKE MY SPACE FACE BOOK ONLINE WHITE OR YELLOW PAGES BIRTHS DEATHS OR MARRIAGES REGISTER , PUBLIC ATSIC BUSINESS INFORMATION , IT LINKS BY SUPER ANNUATION INFORMATION TO COLLIGUES THAT WORK TOGETHER, ANOTHER HINT WHEN YOU SEND A NAME BONGO DATABASE RETAINS THE NAME AND PHONE NUMBER AND ASSOSIATES THE NUMBER TO YOUR NAME AND LINKS YOU WITH THAT PERSON YOU SENT THE TEXT ABOUT IF THAT PERSON SENDS TEXT TO BONGO IT WILL LINK HIM WITH YOU TILL THERE IS MASSIVE GROUP LINKS IT ALSO LINKS BY AGE NAME SUBURB ........ECT ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE JUST THE SPEED WITH WICH OUR PRIVACY IS INVADED

ILL GIVE YOU GUYS AN EXAMPLE , WHEN YOU REGISTER TO PUBLIC ASSOSIATIONS YOU LEAVE PUBLIC REGISTRATION INFO EG SOCCER CLUBS LEAGUES CLUBS FOOTY CLUBS RIFLE ASSOSIATION .......

SO WE TEXT INFO ABOUT A MAN I KNOW CALLED JOHN ASHLY


NOW SOON AS I TEXT BONGO KNOWS WHAT STATE IM IN SO ITS RECEIVES MY TEXT SO WHAT EVER NAME I SEND THERE IS A PROB THAT THAT PERSON IS IN MY STATE ALSO WICH WAS TRUE IN THIS CASE WITH IN SECONDS THE SCAN BEGINS , FUNNY THING THIS PERSON HAS NO FACE BOOK MY SPACE HAS NOT SENT TEXT TO BONGO BUT WE KNOW HE IS IN THIS STATE OKAY WE LOCATE THE PERSON ON HWHITE PAGES SEARCHES PUBLIC RECORDS BINGO HE OWNS A SHOP ITS ON THE atsic WEBSITE SO INSTEAD OF TEXTING THAT INFO IN WHEN AND SEARCHED FOR REGISTRATION AND FOUND HE IS A MEMBER OF THE ALPACA BREADING ASSOCITIONS . HERES THE REPLY FROM BONGO

BONGO KNOWS JOHN ASHLY AS A 35 YEAR OLD MAN WHO LOVE HIS ALPACAS AND CANT GET ENOUGH OF CARS SINCE HE WAS A CHILD .



OKAY THE BUSINESS HE OWNS RESTORES ANTIQUE CARS , DATE OF BIRTH WAS EASY TO FIND FROM BIRTHS DEATHS MARRIGES..... GET IT YET

WHEN I SENT MY NAME IT SAID I WAS A 30 YEAR OLD WITH A FUNNY HAPPY PERSONALITY AND LOVES GAGGS AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY

I USED TO OWN A GAGG SHOP AND BIRTH DEATHS REGISTER HAS YPUR BIRTHADTE THANKS BONGO LMFAO

PASSING NOTES THERE ARE VERY STRINGENT GUIDE LINES ON HOW A COMPANY CAN COLLECT AND USE PUBLIC RECORDS SO DONT STRESS TO HARD AND FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WORRIED DONT TEXT BONGO AND NO LINKS WILL START AND STOP SCATTERING YOUR INFORMATION \ALL OVER THE NET AND FACEBOOK YOU TUBE AND EVRYWERE AND BE VERY CARFULL EVERY TIME YOU FILL OUT A FORM TEXT ANYTHING BREATH THAT YOU NOT LEAVING A TRACE OF UR SELF LOL OR GO UNDERGROUND OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE SOMTHING TO HIDE . THE GUYS AT BONGO DONTE HATE YOU THERE DOING THERE JOB HAVING FUN SUPPLY AND DEMAND CHILDREN

Well I just texte that number I got from a friend on Bebo another social network site which anyone can check up on it's the only site I have ever written that I have a heart condition...my reply from Bongo was Bongo knows Diane has always been a tough lassshe's going trough a tough time with her heart condition but can still show off that glowing smile

if you try to txt back and say the word STOP as you do with other company's that keep sending you txt messages and charging you for it the reply say's...
Bongo is not a subscription servicehowever due to writing stop bongo will not write to you unless you write first..

Total scam
Diane
Edinburgh

I txted bongo today and it came up with really good information about me.
But if I go into google and type in my name, age and where I live, it comes up with links to my bebo and myspace pages so they could easily get all the information they sent me from there!
Its cool tho :)

Check out his website. Bongo is a monkey. Thats how he knows everything. Have you ever been near trees. Bongo lives in trees and listens to people. Thats how he knows everything. And there's not just one bongo. There are thousands. Maybe even more. I have seen them. They seem like cool dudes. So all these monkey's they go back to their big central database and give all the information they have gathered. The person behind all this is a man. I have already said too much but his name is John Mason. He is the guy behind everything. So all these people who say Bongo is stupid are wrong. Cause he is smarter than you. Because of his monkey's he knows everything. I cannot give you the exact location but i know someone who can. Their name is not important because it's never the same person. Just text 199 bongo and say "Where is your central database" and he'll text you the address and he'll even give you directions from your position. Don't take this as a joke. As soon as I poste this message I will be taken by the monkeys. I have answered almost everyone's questions on this page and that's one thing Bongo can't do.

here this is a load of shit

he knew intimate information about me and my boyfriend and also at the start of the relationship he thought he had me wrapped around his little finger plus tht he'd go out with a girl with a boob job??
whats all that about?
it would make a lot of sense if they could read our texts..

i have used bongo over the years ,for when i need to no that person
Some times the info is very accurate,and other times it gives you no info just gobble gook,Great information gather only $3..00 good Value!

organic spooks!

now bongo is $4 a text but bongo only gets the information from facebook and other online networks. people send information about you or someone else to bong they put that information on bongo's files and when someone sends him a text he looks up the name and sends the info back.. i did one on me and my boyfriend i wrote my name and my state and then his name and his state bongo replied back minutes later that said we are a perfect match and that we have sexual chemistry...he is right but something that can prove that this is real...it also said and has a twin brother named...this is quite scary but not as scary as most of you think..as i said at the start people send in this information so dont be worried it really is a person and not a computer...hope i helped
xx
squiz

Not really, we had all forgotten about this

I'm interest in more information about the chic with the boob job..

Me too TR

Im thinking about trading her into my fantasy team.....

its creepy cause it described my appearance and my personality, i googled myself and there is only stuff from my schools..

mine also said that i thought my friend was stuck up, it named the friend and it was true but i have never said that or written it. its not google and i was on a friends phone so it can't have hacked my messages

its sooo creeeppyy!!

haha yeh ive used bongo too! There is another BIG service that all my friends are using called 199-Jerry...gives way better answers, much quirkier!

Man! Strange or what? This is what bongo said bout me;
Bongo knows Amy .......... well, Went to ............ Secondary College.. She's a lot like a parking ticket, has fine written all over her! Great booty.
Hahaha! How has bonto seen mY ass!?

Bongo is full of it he told me I drink like ozzy Osborn crossed with Charlie sheen and that I fight like a bull. I don't fight never been in one lol he also said I have heaps of friends and need three my space pages and I don't have my space or face books and I recently moved so I have no friends here.... Lol I really think its a scam