How do companies get my ex-directory (unlisted) phone number?

Question

And with the Telephone Preference Service, calls, especially from India, still come in. How are they getting private numbers?

Sometimes I just hold them on the line and talk about how unnecessary their product is, or that it's cheaper elsewhere, and they eventually hang up. But some don't; they can go on forever. One of them spent ages trying to phone me back.

Answer 1

from mailing lists they buy, is you wish for yourself to be removed from this sign up to the telephone preference service, this takes approx 28 days to set up, they put you on a list that means and unauthorised marketing calls can be reported to them whereupon that company can be fined for invasion of your privacy.
I suffered the same problems though since signing up to this I have not recieved a single call...............bliss.

i enclose a link,

www.tpsonline.org.uk

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Answer 4

Get a No Cost Phone Number Scan at https://bitly.im/aL9Hm

Its a good way to start. The place lets you to do a no cost phone scan simply to find out if any telephone data is there. This basic alalysis is done without cost. For a full detailed report its a modest payment.

Here's Reverse / Whose Number Lookup page. If you're talking about cell phones, you usually have to pay for that. I've had pretty good luck just using Google a phone number to find out who's calling. If you are researching a quantity of numbers, though, I suppose, you might want a service. I can't imagine why the average person would need to research a quantity of numbers, though, so I assume this is business-related, and it then seems only fair that you pay for a service. But maybe it's not.

Answer 5

Getting An Ex-Directly Number

Answer 6

Unlisted and unpublished are two diferrent things. Unlisted you are not in the directory but information can give your number. These telephone solicitors often just run down a list of number one after the other and get unlisted and all other numbers by chance. I just hang up if someone starts a sales pitch.

Answer 7

Dear the best way to avoid calls from companies is to register your number on the 'National do not call list' You can register your home as well as your cell numbers.

You can got to the below link to register your self.
https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

As for your question how these companies are getting your unlisted number, many credit card companies give out your information to third parties. Last year they had to inform all their customers regarding their practices, chances are that you received something, thought it was junk mail and threw it out. If you did not respond to that notice, you allowed your number to be given out.

I hope this helps.

Answer 8

Some buy them, Money Supermarkets etc on the net, when you request any info regarding mortgages, insurance and so on you put your details and phone number (which you think is probably just for them) but they sell the information at a very high price. So beware of giving out any of your details over the net even if it is just for information.

Answer 9

Look, if you ever signed up for any service, sometimes even your basic cable, then you made your number public. Companies trade lists in order to have a larger customer base. Their privacey policey states that they will not SELL your information, but trading is free game. Sometimes, you sign up with companies that have no privacey policey. They basically sell your information to the highest bidder. Good luck with that.

Answer 10

Everything you do on the Internet is collected and sold to companies as mailing lists. Also phone companies have in the past been known to sell there customer information to companies as well.

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