YSK: LinkedIn will share your suspected phone number with recruiters even when no phone number is used (2fa/ app). Opt out in "Visibility settings" by changing "discovery via phone number" to Nobody.

I've been getting texts on a phone number nobody has, and I tell these recruiters that they should tell me how they got it, and I'll here the pitch. One said "LinkedIn" My phone number isn't in the data download I got with LinkedIn, but it appears that because an associate saved this number, and shared contacts with LinkedIn a shadow profile with my number was made.

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This setting isn't in the "Privacy settings".

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