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<blockquote data-quote="PGB1" data-source="post: 1836796" data-attributes="member: 76746"><p><span style="color: #000080"><em>You have her in your contacts list? </em></span> Nope. She's no where on my computer, nor phone. She isn't on her phone or computer either. </p><p>I did an <em>Easy Find</em> search for the phone number on my computer. It is on the receipts for when I add money to the phone. However it is in an encrypted sparsebundle. Again, her name isn't there.</p><p></p><p><em><span style="color: #000080">He says he's texted her, that could be the link.</span></em> I must have written poorly. I never have texted Grace. Only advertisers have. She doesn't know how to text, so it didn't go outbound.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><em>So it's not what SHE has done, but what YOU have done,</em></span> Holy Smokes Jake! Don't tell her that or I'm a dead man!</p><p></p><p></p><p>The only entities <u>that I can think of</u> who know her real first name, other than family, are the church in Detroit where she was baptized in 1954, the city department of health record of birth and probably the Catholic grade & high schools she attended in the 60's. So, somewhere in the Archdiocese exists Grace's full name. I am sure it is stored digitally in their records. Do they sell that stuff? Doubt it. And, they sure don't know her phone number. She's not even registered at the parish. </p><p></p><p>My only other guess it that about 3 years ago Grace had emergency surgery. I used her partial name on all of the paper work. (The Marie did not appear). But, perhaps she was in that hospital system as a child, thus the real name. It would be easy to link with her birthdate. It's a remote possibility, but who knows?</p><p></p><p>Jake & Ian have me thinking really hard about this. </p><p>You guys are right- The link between phone & real name has to be somewhere. It might be a long trip to make the connection, but if there is money to be made figuring it out...</p><p>That phone number must be out there in a place that it can be linked to Grace's real name. A relative on Facebook is the only place one would find her full name being used in writing. </p><p></p><p>Since no one has the cell number, but our home phone (VOIP with Ooma) is known by her relatives and her relatives use her full name- there must be a way that it all got linked.</p><p> </p><p>We've never put the phone on line, not even for an update. It does not even have the home network name. But mine has been on line often- and on the same home network as Ooma. Also, both of our phones are AT&T. And our computers and her iPad are on that same network. It will pester me until I figure out the path that linked them all together. </p><p></p><p>My best guess at this point is that AT&T or Android (Google) can connect the phone to the internet without our knowledge to get an update or something. They must be able to velcro the pieces together to link the name Grace's relatives use and the phone number. How the number suddenly became hers & not mine is still a mystery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PGB1, post: 1836796, member: 76746"] [COLOR="#000080"][I]You have her in your contacts list? [/I][/COLOR] Nope. She's no where on my computer, nor phone. She isn't on her phone or computer either. I did an [I]Easy Find[/I] search for the phone number on my computer. It is on the receipts for when I add money to the phone. However it is in an encrypted sparsebundle. Again, her name isn't there. [I][COLOR="#000080"]He says he's texted her, that could be the link.[/COLOR][/I] I must have written poorly. I never have texted Grace. Only advertisers have. She doesn't know how to text, so it didn't go outbound. [COLOR="#000080"][I]So it's not what SHE has done, but what YOU have done,[/I][/COLOR] Holy Smokes Jake! Don't tell her that or I'm a dead man! The only entities [U]that I can think of[/U] who know her real first name, other than family, are the church in Detroit where she was baptized in 1954, the city department of health record of birth and probably the Catholic grade & high schools she attended in the 60's. So, somewhere in the Archdiocese exists Grace's full name. I am sure it is stored digitally in their records. Do they sell that stuff? Doubt it. And, they sure don't know her phone number. She's not even registered at the parish. My only other guess it that about 3 years ago Grace had emergency surgery. I used her partial name on all of the paper work. (The Marie did not appear). But, perhaps she was in that hospital system as a child, thus the real name. It would be easy to link with her birthdate. It's a remote possibility, but who knows? Jake & Ian have me thinking really hard about this. You guys are right- The link between phone & real name has to be somewhere. It might be a long trip to make the connection, but if there is money to be made figuring it out... That phone number must be out there in a place that it can be linked to Grace's real name. A relative on Facebook is the only place one would find her full name being used in writing. Since no one has the cell number, but our home phone (VOIP with Ooma) is known by her relatives and her relatives use her full name- there must be a way that it all got linked. We've never put the phone on line, not even for an update. It does not even have the home network name. But mine has been on line often- and on the same home network as Ooma. Also, both of our phones are AT&T. And our computers and her iPad are on that same network. It will pester me until I figure out the path that linked them all together. My best guess at this point is that AT&T or Android (Google) can connect the phone to the internet without our knowledge to get an update or something. They must be able to velcro the pieces together to link the name Grace's relatives use and the phone number. How the number suddenly became hers & not mine is still a mystery. [/QUOTE]
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