Reverse Number Lookup – This is a Whole New Ballgame!
With the advent of the reverse number lookup option, we have started a whole new ballgame. This has changed the way that people try to contact each other because there is now fear that some unknown person will get a hold of your number and be able to look you up on the internet and check you out and be able to find out a lot more information about you than they should. It’s actually scary. You can literally find a address with a phone number!
If someone were to do a phone number reverse lookup tactic on the internet, finding the name of the person who just called their number would just open a can of worms. I don’t mean to be negative but this CAN have negative repercussions as this unknown person who has just found out your first and last name could, in fact, find out much more private information about you. Whos phone number, address and important information could be yours.
Thanks to the find an address by phone number capability, all my statistics could actually fall into the wrong hands. My public records, social security number, personal data, educational background, employment history, tax information and who knows what else, could possibly be open to scrutiny by a John Brown or Mary Jane who I don’t even know or am even faintly familiar with. Is this right? Should this be so? Am I not allowed some form or measure of privacy as a citizen of this country? But then I forget that it is the internet which is universal so my predicament is even more alarming. Someone in who knows what country, somewhere that I have never even traveled to could, in fact, have access to all this information about me and there is nothing in the world that I can do about this and all this has happened because of them using my phone number to do a reverse number lookup. How ludicrous.
Speaking of ludicrous, have you stopped to think that the internet, which allows this reverse number lookup, has no one in charge of it, so to speak. Someone can be finding out almost all they need to commit a fraudulent act against you and there is no one monitoring this activity who is able to say “Stop! No, that’s just not right. Hold on there!” We have computer voices that tell us what we need to know at an underground train station and that give us warnings. We have friendly computer voices in our trains at various airports that lead and guide us to our various stops to and from our planes. Yet we have no friendly computer voice to warn us when someone does a reverse number lookup and finds out our first and last names and who knows what else.
The solution? To put as little information out there as you can. This will definitely help to safeguard your privacy, what little is left of it, but it WILL help, none the less. Be encouraged.
