# How did people get my number for sending/calling stock market & trading tips?

**URL:** https://tradingqna.com/t/how-did-people-get-my-number-for-sending-calling-stock-market-trading-tips/114071
**Category:** Zerodha
**Created:** [July 9, 2021, 6:56am UTC](https://tradingqna.com/t/how-did-people-get-my-number-for-sending-calling-stock-market-trading-tips/114071 "2021-07-09T06:56:30Z")
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### Author: ![Shashikant\_Sharma](https://tradingqna.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Shashikant\_Sharma](https://tradingqna.com/u/Shashikant_Sharma)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2021, 6:56am UTC](https://tradingqna.com/t/how-did-people-get-my-number-for-sending-calling-stock-market-trading-tips/114071/1 "2021-07-09T06:56:30Z")

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Who sells the data? brokers ?

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### Author: ![TradeXMaster](https://tradingqna.com/user_avatar/tradingqna.com/tradexmaster/32/48170_2.png) [@TradeXMaster](https://tradingqna.com/u/TradeXMaster)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2021, 3:48am UTC](https://tradingqna.com/t/how-did-people-get-my-number-for-sending-calling-stock-market-trading-tips/114071/2 "2021-09-30T03:48:32Z")

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> [@Shashikant\_Sharma](#):
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> Who sells the data? brokers ?

Two scenarios

1. Broker/exchange related parties selling our data.
2. Third party hacking into these guys to steal our data.

Probably it’s the first one in most case.