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@LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 1 year ago

If someone nefarious has your full legal name and your phone number, can they wreak any havoc in our life with that info?

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If someone nefarious has your full legal name and your phone number, can they wreak any havoc in our life with that info?

@LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 1 year ago
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  • @carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    41•1 year ago

    I mean, that’s what phone books were.

    • @LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
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      True but nefarious people didn’t have the additional tool of the internet back then.

      • AggressivelyPassive
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        Phone books exist online, too.

        • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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          For home phones and business. But I can’t name 3 people I know that have a home phone anymore, everyone has their own cell phone and they don’t list those. My condo building offers free home phone but I don’t want it, it’s just telemarketers now anyways.

        • @LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
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          He’s talking about the olden days when anybody could be found in the phone book. And that’s all we had was a phone book. No internet. The olden days. You might not remember that because you might not have been born back then.

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          Doubt

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