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Most Expensive Phone Numbers in the World: $10M for Dubai’s ‘8888-8888’

Where Status, Superstition, and Luxury Collide – These Numbers Cost More Than a Mansion In Dubai, where gold ATMs and diamond-encrusted supercars are the norm, even a phone number can be a multimillion-dollar status symbol. In 2016, a wealthy businessman paid $10 million for the number “8888-8888”—not for its utility, but for its unmatched prestige and luck. Across the globe, elite […]