Originally Posted by
NJ Quilter
When sites ask for phone numbers - and won't let you continue without so doing - I just make up a number. You need to use an actual area code (so I use my actual) and then 555 and xxxx. I get way, way too many nuisance calls already. Don't need to add to the mix. If a phone number is required to progress on a site, I don't give them one at all.
a word of caution here. as noted already, old numbers are now new numbers for someone else. and using incorrect numbers can backfire. when we were teens, my little sister & i spent late nights pranking taxi companies. giving wrong address to dispatcher, wrong phone confirmation numbers. long story short & also put a stop to our "fun" ..when a classmate was telling us at school about the engry taxi driver who had awakened friends angry household in middle of night. there are
no phony adress' or phone numbers. companies that run these contests are doing nothing more than collecting information to sell to other companies. i do not think anything they have to give away is worth the loss of privacy by having my name, address & phone number sold all over. i don't give my email addy either.