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Well this is just a guess but.. there are programs called " Spiders" that can extract your phone numbers using the search engines to harvest your numbers. So if at anytime you posted a phone number to a website that was not secure then a product like this could have grabbed it. They also have these to extract unprotected email addresses also.
Here is an excerpt from one of the products:
"Advanced Phone and fax number extractor from the web, which finds or collect phone and fax numbers that are targeted by utilizing the major search engines like google, yahoo, msn etc. Harvest thousands of targeted phone and fax numbers an hour. You can extract telephone, fax numbers from website, search results, web directories, list of urls from local file. You can also export or save data in different format (csv, html, Excel or plain text)."
I am in no way an expert on this type of program and have never used one but there are programs like this that are very easy to find just by using a google search
Cindy
Here is an excerpt from one of the products:
"Advanced Phone and fax number extractor from the web, which finds or collect phone and fax numbers that are targeted by utilizing the major search engines like google, yahoo, msn etc. Harvest thousands of targeted phone and fax numbers an hour. You can extract telephone, fax numbers from website, search results, web directories, list of urls from local file. You can also export or save data in different format (csv, html, Excel or plain text)."
I am in no way an expert on this type of program and have never used one but there are programs like this that are very easy to find just by using a google search
Cindy