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OT: Have you checked out your phone number on Google. See message below.
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| Marianne McCarragher 2005-02-12, 1:34 pm |
| This info was forwarded to me and it is scary.
Marianne
RE: TELEPHONE NUMBERS
This doesn't have my address, but it places me in a certain area by my zip
code. There is a map to my sister's house when I put in her phone number.
If you want to BLOCK Google from divulging your private information,
simply click on phonebook results link above your phone number and
scroll down. I removed my name, but it takes 48-hours.If you are
unlisted in the phone book, you might not be in there, but it is a good
idea just to check. If your number does come up if you hit map, it will
show you a direct map to your house.
This is kind of scary.
This is true if you have a listed number..
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| leslie 2005-02-12, 1:34 pm |
| Marianne McCarragher (medukes@cox.net) wrote:
: This info was forwarded to me and it is scary.
:
: Marianne
: RE: TELEPHONE NUMBERS
: This doesn't have my address, but it places me in a certain area by my zip
: code. There is a map to my sister's house when I put in her phone number.
:
: If you want to BLOCK Google from divulging your private information,
: simply click on phonebook results link above your phone number and
: scroll down. I removed my name, but it takes 48-hours.If you are
: unlisted in the phone book, you might not be in there, but it is a good
: idea just to check. If your number does come up if you hit map, it will
: show you a direct map to your house.
:
: This is kind of scary.
:
: This is true if you have a listed number..
:
:
This is NOT an urban legend...
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/google.htm
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Computers (Google PhoneBook)
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| Eliyahu Rooff 2005-02-12, 1:34 pm |
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"leslie" <LESLIE@JRLVAX.HOUSTON.RR.COM> wrote in message
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> Marianne McCarragher (medukes@cox.net) wrote:
> : This info was forwarded to me and it is scary.
> :
> : Marianne
> : RE: TELEPHONE NUMBERS
> : This doesn't have my address, but it places me in a certain area by
> my zip
> : code. There is a map to my sister's house when I put in her phone
> number.
> :
> : If you want to BLOCK Google from divulging your private information,
> : simply click on phonebook results link above your phone number and
> : scroll down. I removed my name, but it takes 48-hours.If you are
> : unlisted in the phone book, you might not be in there, but it is a
> good
> : idea just to check. If your number does come up if you hit map, it
> will
> : show you a direct map to your house.
> :
> : This is kind of scary.
> :
> : This is true if you have a listed number..
> :
> :
>
> This is NOT an urban legend...
>
> http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/google.htm
> Urban Legends Reference Pages: Computers (Google PhoneBook)
>
It's also not a big deal. This has been available online for years now,
and we've yet to hear of any harm coming from it. I mean, someone can
find who I am from my phone number? So what?
Eliyahu
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| djgordon 2005-02-12, 1:34 pm |
| Exactly. Which reminds me of something a bit similar. We have one Pizza Hut
and one Dominos in our county. Pizza Hut is about 15 miles away and the
Dominos is about 3 miles away. Well, Pizza Hut only started delivering
recently and we like them better, but they won't deliver this far out. So I
said, well how far out will you deliver. They will actually deliver to the
Dominos 3 miles away. I said, well, could I just meet you up at the Dairy
Queen parking lot or something? They said, no, for the safety of our drivers
we won't let them meet someone. I was floored. I said, oh, so it's safer for
them to come directly to my house where I might shoot them and rob them in
private than to let us meet in a public parking lot with people around so I
have plenty of witnesses. That just seemed crazy to me.
Dani
"Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "leslie" <LESLIE@JRLVAX.HOUSTON.RR.COM> wrote in message
> news:_vXOd.39814$uA.12437@fe1.texas.rr.com...
> It's also not a big deal. This has been available online for years now,
> and we've yet to hear of any harm coming from it. I mean, someone can
> find who I am from my phone number? So what?
>
> Eliyahu
>
>
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| Judity 2005-02-12, 1:34 pm |
| ((It's just easier to do now, but anyone
with a listed phone number can be found. If you call the operator and give
them a phone number, they'll give you the name and address of that person.))
It was recommended to me years ago by someone at the telephone company to
not have my address listed or even give any indicator in the telephone book
that I'm a female. My two numbers are simply listed as J. A. Buxton with no
address at all.
I could have gone with unlisted numbers, but this way has worked out well
for me.
Judity
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| Eliyahu Rooff 2005-02-12, 1:34 pm |
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"djgordon" <danigordon@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Exactly. Which reminds me of something a bit similar. We have one
Pizza Hut
> and one Dominos in our county. Pizza Hut is about 15 miles away and
the
> Dominos is about 3 miles away. Well, Pizza Hut only started delivering
> recently and we like them better, but they won't deliver this far out.
So I
> said, well how far out will you deliver. They will actually deliver to
the
> Dominos 3 miles away. I said, well, could I just meet you up at the
Dairy
> Queen parking lot or something? They said, no, for the safety of our
drivers
> we won't let them meet someone. I was floored. I said, oh, so it's
safer for
> them to come directly to my house where I might shoot them and rob
them in
> private than to let us meet in a public parking lot with people around
so I
> have plenty of witnesses. That just seemed crazy to me.
>
A parking lot might or might not have witnesses, but if they send
someone to your house and something happens, they have a lot more hard
information for cops to work with. Unless you're living in a motor home,
you can't just drive your house away and hide, and they don't have to
rely on someone remembering a license number.
Eliyahu
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| 14tonks 2005-02-15, 8:23 am |
| That's my solution. You have to pay for an unlisted phone, and there is
even a small charge around here for a no-address listing, but you can list
absolutely any name you want. My phone is still listed in the name of my
old Burmiss. An unlisted phone number for free, with the bonus that any
time I picked up the phone and heard a voice start "Is this Ms/Mrs.
________," I could just hang up, because I knew it was a telemarketer.
--
Sheila
To reply to me, add the prefix real. to my address.
"Phyllis" <phyllisnilsson@buckeye-express.com> wrote in message
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> You don't have to be unpublished, just have the listing in a different
> name. Our listing uses my husband's middle name (an unusual one for
> this country) as our last name and no address is printed with it. The
> phone bill still comes to us in our name at our home address. Best of
> all, it is free.
>
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