subject: Can You Control The Access To Your Phone Number? [print this page] Can You Control The Access To Your Phone Number?
Having a new telephone connection is always thrilling. It can be a land-line telephone or it can be a mobile phone as well. Once we have our own telephone number, we tend to spread our contact number in our friend circle even quicker than fire. It really gives a pleasing feeling that our phone started to ring as soon as we opt for a connection.
But, at times we forget something really important. To take the pleasure of telling our contact number to all we often forget that telling the number to all may become a future cause of headache for us. We realize this only when we start getting calls from unknown numbers. Some of these callers are telemarketers who want to push their service or product to you even if you do not require them at all. At times, these callers are some persons who do not have any other thing to do and so they simply find pleasure in annoying others.
When we receive such calls, do we bother to think how are these people getting our numbers? These people are getting these numbers from sources where we only revealed our contact information. Most of the times, while registering with a website we reveal all our contact information. Now, these sites sell off these personal data to various organizations. The telemarketers are nothing but the representatives of these organizations. So, from today onwards, kindly bear in mind do not reveal your contact information in any of the websites and in case you did the same some days back in any of the websites, please go back to them again and delete your personal contact information from there.
Now, even doing so may not stop you from getting those annoying calls. If that be the case, register your phone number to Do Not Call' register. Doing so, you can stop the calls from telemarketers. To stop the other calls, kindly start using reverse phone search services. Using reverse phone search service you can extract all the essential information about a caller and take steps accordingly.
