Yea, if you have ever had an ad or anything that you have to put your phone number down for it's gotcha.<br /><br />Thats why I always use a fake number.<br />If they want to get in touch with me then they can e-mail me.
Try typing in your name and see what comes up. If not you, it might find some folks with same name.<br /><br />Check this Google Solves Kidnapping story out from Atlanta.
If you have a published number, you can be found. If you have an address I can find your number if it is published. The only way to prevent this is to get an unpublished, unlisted number. My sister has done this ever since an inmate at a prison started calling her to get her to sponsor his release. She did nothing to warrnt the call, did not know the person and to this day does not know how he got her number or know why he called her.<br /><br /> http://www.theultimates.com is a good site for looking up phone numbers. Yahoo has a reverse lookup for address. They also have a button to click to see your neighbors names and phone numbers.
I don't know fellows, but I can type in any number in my area code and a person or business comes up.<br /><br />I just type in a number and hit google search.