PSA if you give out fake phone numbers

Just a PSA if you give out fake phone numbers when you sign up for rewards, etc. Make sure the number doesn’t belong to someone else.

The annoyance from the side of a person who has had her number given out ~ my number was sold by whoever he gave it to. I get multiple texts a day from a political party that I’m opposed to. I’m REALLY tired of seeing that pop up on my phone all the time. I do have an iPhone so I could turn on the “block unknown callers” button, but my job uses text verification for signing things and calling our Home Office and it’s not always from the same number. If I turn that on I won’t get those texts. And it’s just as much of an annoyance to turn it on before a call and turn it off after.

I also can’t set up a rewards account myself for a few nationwide stores because he already has. And when I give my phone number they ask if I’m *first name*. Nope, he’s using my number. I could call their corporate offices to get it fixed but they aren’t shops I go to often.

I’m close to changing my phone number.

But here’s the kicker ~ I have a lot of the guy’s personal information. It first started with texts being addressed to a first name. Then I started getting texts that someone wanted to sell his house at *his address listed out*. So with his first name and address a quick Google search gave me his last name.

That’s bad enough, and yes, I didn’t need to Google. But one day I ran a credit report on myself and he’s now showing up as someone that I may be associated with. And with that I now have his full name, including middle initial, address, phone number, and email.

The vindictive part of me wants to sign him up for every opposing party’s texts and emails, along with anything else I can get my hands on.

I also want to email or text him to tell him to stop. But I’m afraid that will ramp him up as well.

So, if you do that, don’t. It’s a really shitty thing to do to someone you don’t know just to save yourself from an inconvenience you are now putting on them.

It happened to me too. A lady named Karen used my number for a petsmart rewards account from what I can tell and I get a bunch of political stuff and calls to see if I want to sell some property I don’t own. It was really annoying until I answered a good number of the calls and told them they had the wrong number. I unsubscribed to a bunch of political texts also.