Ban witheld numbers?

Julian Morrison · 24-02-2005, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by B.A.Ware

could you give me an example of why someone would legitimately want to withhold their number.

Suppose I need to call a company for eg: tech support, but I know they have a habit of harvesting numbers and adding them to their phone spam list. Withholding my number would allow me to refuse to participate in that particular scam.

Also there are plenty of circumstances that are sneaky or even unethical, but perfectly legit in terms of law. For example, headhunting an exec from a competing company. You want to speak to them personally, not to whomever else checks their phone records.

mkpdavies · 24-02-2005, 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Julian Morrison

Quote:

Originally Posted by B.A.Ware

could you give me an example of why someone would legitimately want to withhold their number.

Suppose I need to call a company for eg: tech support, but I know they have a habit of harvesting numbers and adding them to their phone spam list. Withholding my number would allow me to refuse to participate in that particular scam.

Also there are plenty of circumstances that are sneaky or even unethical, but perfectly legit in terms of law. For example, headhunting an exec from a competing company. You want to speak to them personally, not to whomever else checks their phone records.

Thats a good point!

However if companies are willing to be unethical and do illegal things, then that is another problem all together. If any company then cold calls you with that information, you then report their number and they get fined or shut down, or finger the company that sold them this list.

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