The best way to circumvent something like the below occurring is to have your home phone number listed under a pseudonym with no street address listed - and block out *69 and caller-id. If some entity wants your phone number, give them your business number.
Something of privacy interest happened to me yesterday. I phoned a company to ask for a copy of their catalog. The phone clerk asked for my last name and zip code. After receiving that info, the clerk asked me, "Is this your full name and address?" and then gave them both correctly. I was taken aback. Does anyone know how this trick was done?
What trick? For ~$150, you can buy a CD-ROM-set DB with every listed
phone number in the U.S. on it, faxes too;
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