Be wary of giving your phone number to sites

That's terrible. In fact, I think that's actionable. What places did you give your phone number too, I want to know so I don't make the same mistake. I will be super careful giving out my number in the future. As a woman you can't be too careful with things like that.

Most of the times we shouldn't give our mobile numbers but some times we need to trust the companies in the company employees are not leaving us they keep on make calls to irritate us.

This is very unusual. I have heard of people being bombarded by people selling stuff but someone texting you asking for personal stuff is weird and psychotic. Reading your story makes me think that this guy just pic your number from the list because hes desperate for friends or hes just a nut case. Hope you resolve that soon.

Why would you even give your phone number to a website. Alarm bells would ring straight away. Spam on your phone lol

you are so right about giving out your phone number. you have to be so careful about what information that you give out over the internet. I hope that you have good luck at reporting it, and you can get it stopped.

hi sis.... u can track from his phone number, and u can also report him to the phone provider in ur country... or u can block his messages and phone calls by using ur cell phone feature... ^^

Wow that's some crazy! Hope you can report this company or person or both! Thats why it's good to get one of those free voicemail numbers to give out on those web forms. That's what I have started using. This way you can still maintain your privacy and still receive any important business messages that may come through. It works well for me. You can get a free voicemail several places. One I use is http://laservoicemail.com if you want one too.

Wow I have never heard of this happening but I would be really mad as well. I think this employee should get fired because I do agree that he invaded your privacy. Its not an employees job to do what he did. I bet the boss will be really mad. I try my hardest not to give my phone number out to any companies if I don't absolutely need them to contact me. Even when you go to the stores now and are paying for items with cash they always ask for your phone number. I tell them I don't want to give that out. Online if possible when filling out a form that requires my phone number I will type in the first 6 digits and then just add 0000 to the rest of the number. It almost always goes through that way. You could do this in the future if you don't really want them to contact you.

That is an un nerving experience and a total invasion of privacy! I do hope you have some luck in putting a stop to it. I have placed my mobile number on several sites too, I guess I've been luckly not to get harrassed! I did enter this thing once which resulted in me receiving text messages every day at the cost of $2 a day! I didn't sign up fot that! It took ages to get them to stop doing it!

really?? gosh everytime i register here online, they are asking on my cell number and i did type it, however i didnt receive any msg like what you receives. if they will send me that kind of msgs i will ignore them

That's why I give a fake phone number. I know it's against the rules and all, but I'm not having 100 telemarketers calling me every day, day in and day out. It's annoying as heck and I won't put up with it for what little bit of money I make off of those sites.

My husband taught me a lot of things over the internet. One of them is to never give out any information regarding your private details especially and more importantly cellphone or telephone numbers. Never ever trust anything or anybody over the internet. And so we only invent numbers when they are required. We even create email accounts that are not for our personal use just to have something to give to sites that really require email addresses. I hate people who are sending text messages that only create annoyance to receivers. The best thing we could do is to change our SIM cards or telephone numbers which is not so easy to do especially for telephone lines. With regard to SIM cards problem lies with informing again all your friends and relatives on your new number. But that is the only way to get rid of the person who text you or bothers you. Problem again is if the SIM you are using is a Postpaid/Plan from a SIM provider. That SIM can't be changed because you are bound by a contract. So better report to the company of your SIM provider the number that bothers you and they will cut the line if in case a lot complains about that number. So ask some of your friends to help you in reporting. That's all!

i never know that also, thanks for your discussion, i must be careful next time, you too

oh my God, i just had gave my telephone nomber to a site.i hate the trouble from them.as you said "disgusted and outraged".i will pay more attention to that.telephone nomber is my privacy i and i don't want to change my nomber for that.thank you for your reminding of

I never give my phone number out to places like that. If they want my phone number, then I| don't want their services. I know of a friend of mine who did that, and he got all kinds of stupid freaking sales calls from everyone in the freaking USA. It got annoyoing after a while.

Well, This is a very bad thing . This should not happen . Yes,we should be careful in sharing private information with each and every site . I hope that all this agony is over for you very very soon .

This kind of thing happens in Germany also. One dodge is to send seemingly harmless text messages asking for a reply. The reply however is to a special number costing over a dollar per text. If you get hooked into an exchange of views it can cost you a lot of money. It is common with dating sites and you think you are in contact with an interesting lady!