I NEVER get spam calls. But spam calls just jumped like crazy after an old acquaintance called me from a convalescent center.

Maybe I'm nuts, but I figured I'd share the story and ask the question here in case this is a known way of harvesting data that I've not heard about before.

So, many many years ago, when we got our landline installed to our new house, we paid to have an unlisted number. I may have also had extra privacy provisions applied at the time (I'm not sure what that would have been, but I worked at a job where …

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