Mom buys a painting of her son from a local fair artist, discovers artist gave away her phone number when she gets a call from a stranger asking for painting: ‘It was out of line’

When you get to the cash register at a retail store and they ask for your phone number at the end of the transaction, everyone knows that by giving away your number, you are also consenting to getting promotional messages from this brand for the rest of your life. We are sure it's not just us who receive a promotional text message every 5 minutes, but we got so used to it, we barely even notice it by that point.

Phone calls, however, tend to get under our skin. How do so many bots and scam companies get our phone numbers, and why won't they stop calling? How can we keep our privacy safe from having others get access to something as personal as our phone number?

Those are the questions that went through our heads as we read the story below, in which a mother was appalled to discover her phone number was given away to a stranger after a transaction with a local fair artist. While she didn't blame the stranger who called, she didn't like the fact that her information was given away in the first place, so she decided to confront the one responsible.

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