Netflix plans to remove the traces of the phone number seen in the recent popular title Squid Game. This decision was made after the prank calls received by the real owner of the number. He used to get around 4000 calls per day after the show had premiered. The Hollywood reporter first reports this news.
The phone number is shown in the first episode contains an eight-digit number. This eight-digit number is given to multiple characters to win a cash prize in a deadly survival game. It seems that many people, out of curiosity, have called this number. After reaching this number, most of them have shown interest in playing the game. The person couldn’t change the number as it is that number that has linked to an individual’s business dealing and client contacts. Siren Productions, unlike the other productions, has used an actual number instead of a fictional number. As a result, the production thought to edit the scenes where the phone number appears to put a full stop to the prank calls.
If Netflix doesn’t care to make any changes, the number of calls per day might increase as the number of viewers increases. The South Korean web series, on its debut, has got into the top ten most viewed worldwide. The Korean Times reported that a person whose number differs by a single digit also has some calls and messages regarding the game. Another person whose number varies by a double-digit also has got some calls and messages too.
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