Comment It Happend to me...... (Score 1) 146
Two days after I got my iphone and new number, I hadn't given it to a single person or posted it anywhere or updated my contact information anywhere, nobody has my new number. I then downloaded about 20 iphone apps that day. Later that day, and for 2 weeks following, I received about 8 phone calls a day from various online colleges such as everett, AIU, and a slew of other online colleges that googling reveals are scams and the majority of search results are people complaining about getting 8 calls a day from them. I called back one of the times and inquired about my 'account' with them, in which they had both my number, and said I had signed up online to receive these calls as I had submitted I Had interest in being a student there, which I do not and did not. Unless at&t provided my number to this company, one of the iphone apps had reported my number to this service, and that's just not cool. It could be coincidence or perhaps my new number was used by someone previously, which is what I wanted to think, but with all these free iphone apps, It just makes sense that someone would desire to profit from them.