If you're on the "facebooked" list your number is already disclosed and correlated to you and your email address - inputting it onto a website to see if it's one of the compromised will have absolutely no effect.
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#13It's kinda crazy how paranoid people have become around stuff like phone numbers. Even if this site were recording the numbers, what good is it?
Your phone number is a short unique identifier for you which follows you around for potentially your entire life, because the hassle of changing it is significant. I imagine marketers find it significantly more valuable than an email address.
It's crazy how we have gone from the phone company publishing an entire index of everyone's names, addresses, and phone numbers, to ...this.
what happened to the good old days of the white page phone books.
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Well, from what I can tell, older people are targeted at far high rate. Age seems to be a valued input to the process. I can guess a number of reasons for that.
Does anyone under 50 pick up the phone if they don't know the number that's calling?
When searching for a job is the best example. Though these are usually not hidden numbers and for me, if a mobile is calling it's either a wrong number or work related. Spam seems to always a landline.
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#15If you're on the "facebooked" list your number is already disclosed and correlated to you and your email address - inputting it onto a website to see if it's one of the compromised will have absolutely no effect.
In the case it isn't, it is exposed to the haveibeenfacebooked page afterwards you asked them if it is exposed
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#16If you're on the "facebooked" list your number is already disclosed and correlated to you and your email address - inputting it onto a website to see if it's one of the compromised will have absolutely no effect.
But if you aren't in the data you are now giving away information.
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Well, from what I can tell, older people are targeted at far high rate. Age seems to be a valued input to the process. I can guess a number of reasons for that.
Does anyone under 50 pick up the phone if they don't know the number that's calling?
Most people I know over 50 don't answer unknown numbers either.
But it's the same as spam... getting one victim out of a hundred thousand is probably enough to make it pay off.
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Do you not get spam calls on your phone? Phone numbers that are put into this site are likely to be valid & active, making them valuable data to sell.
From what I can tell, spam calls are mostly war dialing. Some of them are actually going sequentially, my spouse's number is about 400 away from mine, and sometimes she gets the same automated call minutes after me.
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#19What of this version, which sends 99 random numbers along with your real number?
https://www.thenewseachday.com/private-facebook-phone-number...
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#20It's kinda crazy how paranoid people have become around stuff like phone numbers. Even if this site were recording the numbers, what good is it?
Your phone number is a short unique identifier for you which follows you around for potentially your entire life, because the hassle of changing it is significant. I imagine marketers find it significantly more valuable than an email address.
We already know all possible phone numbers. I think the value would be in associating it with at least one more piece of data to correlate it with other data. At least tie it to some sort of demographics, but preferably an exact individual.