Listed Phone Number?

Jules

Jules

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If you have a landline, is your phone number listed? Or your address?

That’s one advantage of a cell phone, no listings available.

We have both. Someone went to call us on the landline and said that our phone number wasn’t in the book anymore. That was probably a lucky accident.
 

NO my landline number is ex-directory , has been for about 30 years now..after I was getting some very weird calls.. and had to call the police in, so ever since it;s been ex-directory...

I haven't had a phone book sent to me for a few years now, although every now and again we still get a very much slimmed down yellow pages.. but of course if anyone wanted my home phone number they only need to call the online directory service , and get it if I didn't have it unlisted
 

Nathan said:
Being listed or unlisted is kind of irrelevant these days, if someone wants they can find your landline and address online from "people search" sites.
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Not in the UK you can't.... I;m always amazed that people can find anything about anyone online in the US even their criminal past. I was watching a video recently of a Real Estate lawyer in the USA and he was saying that Landlords can refuse to house people if they search for any kind if criminal past..or even.. if the prospective tenant had defaulted on rent payments in the past, regardless of the reason...and even if it had been decades before.
 
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hollydolly said:
Not in the UK you can't.... I;m always amazed that people can find anything about anyone online in the US even their criminal past. I was watching a video recently of a Real Estate lawyer in the USA and he was saying that Landlords can refuse to house people if they search for any kind if criminal past..or even.. if the prospective tenant had defaulted on rent payments in the past, regardless of the reason...and even if it had been decades before.
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Having worked in prisons/jails meant the possibility that the criminals would be "googling" you, as a staff member, for nefarious reasons. One step I took was to submit a request to the county to suppress my name/personal info from the property tax database. Further, I would submit take-down requests to the various people search sites where I found my info displayed. I wish that privacy protection was as much a priority here in the U.S. as is, in the UK & EU.
 
Nathan said:
Having worked in prisons/jails meant the possibility that the criminals would be "googling" you, as a staff member, for nefarious reasons. One step I took was to submit a request to the county to suppress my name/personal info from the property tax database. Further, I would submit take-down requests to the various people search sites where I found my info displayed. I wish that privacy protection was as much a priority here in the U.S. as is, in the UK & EU.
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OMg, that's something that never even occurred to me that of course, it can work both ways. Criminals can hunt down their prey very easily... what a horrifying thought...
 
I haven't seen a phonebook in years to check my landline. As far as cell phones go they have to be listed somewhere because my husband and I still get Spam calls on them.
 
Mine hasn't been listed ever. I do get spam calls but I believe they call any and all random numbers through a computer center. They don't know who they are calling because they never ask for me by name..
 
have land line and number is "listed" somewhere?? i probably answer phone LESS than 10% of the time. name/number will pop up on tv screen for a few rings. if i recognize person/number, i'll pick up. i don't go out of my way to get to ringing phone... it'll go to msg anyway... and at least 9 times out of 10 there's no message left by caller.
 
Here, in the US, your name, criminal and civil history, marital status, address, with pics, from the street and above, phone numbers, both land and cell, your income, the worth of the house you live in, your car 's VIN, its accident history, in some states, your driver's license number, driving history, are some of the data anyone can get, mostly for free. Sorry, but it's a quaint idea that if you're not in the phone book, you have anonymity.
If someone wants to pay for it, there probably is nothing about you that's on some data base, somewhere, that they cannot find.
BTW, when was the last time you saw that thing, you call a "phone book"?
 
Here's how not private phone and cell numbers are in the U.S. A few weeks ago, I received a letter in the mail from my local government health department. They requested I visit their website or set up a time by phone for them to call to ask me questions as part of a behavioral profile.

They said they did not know my name or who I was. (My name and address were on the envelope!) They said my number was chosen at random. No. My number and identity were compromised in a security breach because of my telecom company last summer. Everybody must have it by now. So I get weird stuff like this a lot.

Just be careful and be aware. It is so important to keep your privacy especially when online or with people you meet there.
 
I am ex-directory with the landline, also the electoral register,
not on the public one, I know one person who is only on the
electoral register, not the public one, she is a very private yet,
friendly person and somebody who wants to be elected to the
Government at the next election, keeps sending her Emails and
messages to her phone!

This means that he has stolen her identity from a secure process,
would I like somebody like him as my local politician?

I don't think so.

Mike.
 
I never use the landline and the # is listed in a phone book along with my address. And even if you do not have a phone connected to that landline you still get charged for that non existent phone. This is because my package includes a bundle.

When I asked about having it removed, it costs extra for having an unlisted number.
 
When I moved, I was given a new internet phone, but the
call charges are so high, I have never used to for years, the
deal that I have on my mobile phone, is unlimited calls, plus
unlimited texts and 500 Gigabytes of data, for £5.20 per Month,
my house phone is on Pay-As-You-Go, if I use it, it will cast
around 30 pence per minute, but the reception on the actual
phone is pin sharp.

Mike.
 

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