They know where you are. [View all]

[trof]

We're visiting our daughter in a small town near Boston.
We live 1500 miles away on the Alabama gulf coast.
Only a couple of friends have her phone number and know we're here.

Got back to her house a few days ago and there was a phone message on her land line.
For me.

From an 877 toll free number.
I looked it up online.
A real estate company in Ft. Myers, FL.

How did they get my daughter's number?

I called.
The lady wanted to know if we had filed a damages claim for the BP oil spill in the gulf a couple of years ago. We had.
Her company files such claims (for a fee).

"How did you get my daughter's number?"
"THEY gave it to me."
"THEY being someone in your office?"
"Yes."
"How did they get it?"
"I'm sorry, I don't know. They just give me a list of numbers. If they can't get in contact with the individual, they call closest kin."

Peolple I don't know know TOO much about me.