There are a number of services that provide recruiter tools for scraping potential candidate contact data into their CRM’s and candidate management / lead tools

There are a number of services that provide recruiter tools for scraping potential candidate contact data into their CRM’s and candidate management / lead tools. So if you ever share your details with a recruiter on LinkedIn for example, and they scrape it, then other recruiters who also use these services now also have access to your number. I was puzzled how receuiters were getting my number. I’d only shared it with a few recruiters two years previously, and now was getting calls from random recruiters. One of them admitted to me that this was why. Takeaway: use a throwaway number for recruiters.