Website detected my phone number, how possible???

Hi everybody... I have a question for all you there:
yesterday I was surfing on web (with 3G connection)
on my iPhone4, updated with the last Apple iOS
by the integrated browser Safari.
The strange thing is that after clicking on a link
I've seen that I was redirected to my carrier website
and then returned to the link I've clicked ok...
by the way I received an SMS with a kind of pubblicitary message.
How they had my phone number to send me an SMS?
How can it be possible?
Is my privacy compromitted?
What should I check?

There are many possibilities.
One is that you filled in your phone number on some website, and that website stored a cookie on your computer to associate your browsing information with your cookie.

Similar Messages

  • When i send a text from my iphone 5S its going from my icloud email not my phone number , how can i change this?

    When i send a text message from my iphone 5s, it is sending it from my icloud email rather than my phone number , how can i change this ?
    Thanx

    Settings>Messages>Send/Receive>Start New Conversations From....put a check next to your phone number.

  • My messages won't say the contact name only shows the phone number, how do you change this when the contact is in my phone under that number already?

    My messages won't say the contact name only shows the phone number, how do you change this when the contact is in my phone under that number already?

    I thought that at first, but I have text this person before and had received responses in a timely manner. Its just weird that it all of a sudden removed their name.
    Would this affect the delivery of the text message?

  • HT201441 I don't have owner's phone number, how to get  previous owner's Apple ID(email address) and send him a email let him remove the device from the account.

    I don't have owner's phone number, how to get  previous owner's Apple ID(email address) and send him a email let him remove the device from the account

    There is no way for anyone on this forum to assist you.  Apple will also not assist you.  If you purchased the device thru ebay, file a claim.  If you purchased it some other way, I'm sorry.  there is nothing anyone can do to help you.

  • My IMessages from my Ipad are sending from my email and I want them to send from my phone number, how do I fix this?

    My Imessages that Im sending from my ipad are sending from my email address and I want them to send from my phone number, how do I change this?

    Settings>Messages>Send & Receive at>You can be reached by iMessages at> Select your iPhone number if it appears in the setting. If it does not appear, sign out of messages on the phone and the iPad, start all over again and sign in on the phone first to make the number accessible on the iPad.
    Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and

  • How to detect mobile phone number???

    Hi,
    Is there a way to get phone number somehow? well what i m trying to do is, connect a web site from mobile and fill some fields (may be send picture to this page). While connected to this page, i want to detect and keep this mobile's number. Any suggestions??
    thanks in advance.

    gimbal2 wrote:
    I can only guess, but generally it is in the line of "because you won't use it legally" that information is kept hidden from you.No, it's not really that. IIRC some manufacturers have a proprietary Java ME API for some models that lets you access the IMEI. And all handsets have a code that can be entered via the keypad to display the IMEI.
    To expect to be able to access it using Java SE is more than absurd.
    db

  • My message center in settings shows the wrong phone number, how do I change it

    Under settings, messages, send and receive. The phone number listed is my husbands number.  How can I change it to mine?   It was originally listed under my number.

    Go slightly deeper into the settings. You should be looking in Settings>FaceTime>Send and Receive at>You can be reached by iMessages at.
    If your phone number is no longer listed as one of the options in that setting, you may have to turn off messages on all of your iOS devices and start all over again in order to make both phone numbers available and accessible for FaceTime and Messages.
    Read this for more information.
    iOS and OS X: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use

  • TS4268 My phone uses my email for iMessage but not my phone number, how do I get that to use my phone number and not my email?

    I can't figure out how to use my phone number and not my email for iMessage

    Settings>messages>Send & Receive> Start New Conversations From and select your phone number.

  • HT3529 I changed my phone number how do I get iMessage to send new num not old one

    How do you change number on iMessage after changing to new number

    Speak with an AppleCare advisor either over the phone or by chat.
    They will remove your phone number from the iMessage system. That's it! Otherwise after 45 days your phone nymber will automatically be removed from the system. Now or later, it's your choice.
    http://www.apple.com/support/contact/   (choose Get Started)
    Cheers!

  • HT4623 i changed my phone number, how can i change it on my iphone ?

    I recently changed my phone number and now am only able to send pictures via iMessage and not to other non iphone users.  How can I change my phone number on the settings?  Ive tried Settings- phone-my number and not able to.  Also I would like to know how to change my name on the device.  I have already changed it on my phone its just not showing up when I sync to my car.
    Thanks!

    You should go to your local Mobile Service provider
    Also check out this thread:
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/16552107#16552107

  • Imessage and facetime running off of email. says activation failed. want to run it off my phone number. how??

    after following all the advice. wiping my phone, waiting 24 hours, etc. imessage and facetime are still running off of my email. Iphone will not let me choose my phone number as an option and just says activation failed..

    Hi there,
    I would recommend taking a look at the troubleshooting steps found in the articles below.
    iOS: Troubleshooting FaceTime and iMessage activation
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4268
    iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
    -Griff W.

  • My iPod didn't come with a phone number how do I get one

    I can't use iMessage or FaceTime I don't have a phone number my iPod didn't come with one.

    you can use imessage or facetime with an Apple ID.
    Check out this article for information
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3529

  • IMessage has wrong phone number how do I change it

    My iPhone 4S uses the correct # and so did my ipad up until about a month ago. That's when my daughter got her new 5C and it was set up. She's only 10, so they set it up under my appleID, now her phone # is showing up on my Ipad as the number to send messages to. She is receiving all my text and I hers.
    How do I change the number back to mine on the ipad?
    Thank you

    Try this on both you and your daughters iPhones:
    1. go to settings>messages>send and receive
    2. tap on the Apple ID and sign out
    3. turn iMessage off and wait 10 seconds
    4. turn iMessage on
    5. this should activate iMessage with the iPhones own numbers
    6. now only you sign into the Apple ID for iMessage
    This should revert back to only your number and email showing as the contact info for iMessage and you both should not receive eachothers messages. Your daughter will still be able to iMessage but only with her number unless she creates another Apple ID just for iMessage.
    Note: Only do steps 1-4 for the iPad

  • Skype phone number- how to make it work?

    i am sitting in australias and got my mum in NZ to phone my NZ skype number with  09 xxx xxx4 and it just rang off to nuthing, i then rang from my mobile 0064 9 xxx xxx4 and it also rang off to no where
    can anyone tell my why it doesnt work, or why am i paying $40  a year for a service that is not functioning? 
    i can t even find a link to email the skype support team, is there one at all??? how do you get personal help or service? 

        Hello pepson93! The Samsung Fascinate is a CDMA only device, which makes it great for use in areas were CDMA signal is available. Unfortunately, the country of Poland does not have CDMA service providers so the Fascinate will not work there. I recommend seeking options for equipment with your local carriers. Best of luck!
    Dion M.
    VZW Support
    Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/vzwsupport

  • Formatting phone number: how to get rid of (...)?

    I live in Romania, and Contacts incorrectly formats phone numbers of the type xxxx xxx xxx (10 digit, the national standard, out of which the first is zero) into (xxxx) xxx xxx, i.e. inserting brackets before the first and after the 4th digit respectively. This is wrong. The bug is seemingly banal, yet it has bad consequences: if phone numbers are exported to Android, some Android devices, not all, alas, cannot dial such numbers and the process is stopped. Well, this may be a bug in Android, nevertheless the problem exists.
    A workaround is to choose another country as standard, e.g. Czech Republic. It works, but only for numbers added from that/this moment on, it does not remove (...) from the existing numbers.
    Q: how can I remove those stupid brackets (....) from the existing phone numbers? I need a global solution, a script or something...
    I reported the issue to Cupertino but they seem to be extremely slow, I do not understand why. Those brackets are incorrectly inserted, the national standards specifies a 10-digit number, out of which the first is zero, which is removed in case of international calls, and the prefix is added.

    Self answer: I changed country at hazard to Czech Republic, and all the phone numbers have been meanwhile changed from the wrong format (xxxx) xxx xxx to the correct format 0 xxx xxx xxx
    Praise be to hazard settings.
    P.S. Yes, I marked myself with a green bingo.

Maybe you are looking for

  • Issue for Form 16 and tax Computation on Salary to Employees

    Dear All Can Anybody suggest a way out for the following - We have to issue form 16 as per Indian income tax laws to employees. is there any method for computation of tax on salary or any development is required for the same. As per the Indian income

  • View object that will allow to see data from two tables in a adf table

    Hi, I've been have serious issues to resolve this functional requirements with ADF. Basically I have two tables let say employee and department. A need a read only adf table to show the employees values but I don't want the users to see the departmen

  • Anonymous inner class

    Hello In the following piece of code: import static tools.Print.*; interface ForInner {      void who();      String toString(); class ForInnerWithParameters {      int i;      String s;      ForInnerWithParameters(int i) {           this.i = i; clas

  • How do I fade out a soundtrack to the entire presentation?

    Hey - my presentation has a track to accompany it which is longer than the visual so I would like to fade it out at the end. Any ideas how I can do this?? Thanks so much!

  • Macbook pro deleting letters as i type.

    not all the time or I wouldn't be able to type this.  in the search bar i will type one letter, it immediately becomes shaded blue, the next letter i type deletes it.  have restored all defaults for keyboard and track pad.  cursor was also fading to