01-11-2019, 05:55 PM
Yea this isn't a case of a "data breach". Your phone number isn't really protected information and frankly can be scraped from a million places it's not really a breach. These are auto dialers for today's technology and in most cases they are just calling random number combinations looking for people who will answer. They spoof the caller ID system based on the setting to show a number that may appeal to you and they attempt to verify numbers through audio inflections on the other end. If they verify the number that number can then be resold to telemarketers as a verified live number for more money, or it will transfer you to a guy in a call center who's job is to wait for one of these systems to get someone. A lot of times you know the exchange is happening because there will be a long pause then it'll sound like someone picked a phone up off a receiver.
