can somebody trace your mobile number

raq

thanks for all your helpful advise but one more thing.

She is panicking now that somebody can go into a certain mobile shop and give out her number and ask for the details. Told her again it is under the 1989 law ( as stated by phone yesterday ) that companies are not allowed to give out this information.

Am I correct /?/

darkblue_2

Correct. They cannot give out those details. She has nothing to worry about in that respect

raq

darkblue wrote: »

Correct. They cannot give out those details. She has nothing to worry about in that respect

thankyou so much. They are going through so much at the moment and can really do without this. I have tried to reasure her and doing the best I can.

Thankyou to everyone who has replied.

david39

Have your in-laws innocently given out their mobile number to or on :

• Street survey collectors
• Charter return-Flight holiday survey forms
• Electrical equipment guarantee forms that do not go directly to the equipment manufacturer.
• Contractors working on their property or delivery firms who "need to advise when they are arriving."
• Application forms to finance or loan companies dealing in the bottom-layers of the market.
• Door-to-door sales people (especially "charity" monthly-subscription collectors or energy salespersons).
• A myriad of other organisations employing casual agents who harvest landline and mobile phone numbers and then sell them on as "live" contacts.

The problem is that we give away this information without thinking, to people whom we do not know and who purport to be working for recognisable and reputable companies and organisations, and then forget that we have done so.

"Live" phone numbers are a valuable commodity and are sold regularly in batches to cold-calling sales organisations. They are especially valuable if they can be linked to a specific sector of a market.

When asked for your mobile phone number, always think : Why is this person asking for it - why does he need it?

lucylucky

darkblue wrote: »

Correct. They cannot give out those details. She has nothing to worry about in that respect

I think the real answer here is they should not give out the details. It does not, sadly, always follow that all people obey all the rules.

Are they worried about people finding out their address?

If someone really wanted to I don't doubt for a minute that they could.

darkblue_2

If someone really, really wanted to - of course.

Hopefully companies follow DPA

raq

They just don't want to speak to a particular person and was scared that they could go into say t mobile or someone like that state the number ( in laws number ) and ask for personal info.

raq

lucylucky wrote: »

I think the real answer here is they should not give out the details. It does not, sadly, always follow that all people obey all the rules.

Are they worried about people finding out their address?

If someone really wanted to I don't doubt for a minute that they could.

GOT US WORRIED AGAIN NOW:o

lucylucky

raq wrote: »

GOT US WORRIED AGAIN NOW:o

It really depends how determined the individual is.

If it is just someone ringing them, then I see no reason not to ignore and think no more of it.