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Paul,

We have not gotten wrong email address or phone number except for one who gave us a fax number...We feel if that is their MO then we are happy to realize we are not a match, and we move on.  A

Very rarely I'll get one.

Seems like more phony email addresses! Usually get corrct phone numbers!

I actually get a very low percentage of bad email addresses and/or phone numbers. But I would say, that I probably get slightly more bad phone numbes than emails.

When someone signs up on my web site it tells me whether or not the email and phone numbers are correct.   Probably 20% are fake. 

I've found that if you ask for the information after you have interacted with them, it's likely to be the real deal.  And lately, I've noticed that people are pretty protective of their email addresses!

There is no shortage of prospects who will provide false contact information.

It has happened and in my Market Leader I delete people who put in phony email addresses.

If there is no caller id on the phone, I ask for it. Also, I usually offer to email them something, a good reason to get it. Then I follow up, make sure they got it. If they won't go that far, I make a notation if my notebook. I certainly don't do anything for them if they don't even give me their name. No one gets on any kind of permanent list unless I have enough information.

We get a lot of that from the leads off our website. Although not nearly as many as a few ago. 

So far I have received true phone numbers and email addresses. 

For me it depends on the lead source. Typically my bogus leads have all fictitious info including name.  My best leads even correctly input their current residence

The more you troll the more fakes you get, just a part of the process.

Mostly fake phone numbers or no phone numbers at all. It is easier for individuals to set up separate email accounts to receive "spam" mail. It's difficult to follow up on these leads though to make sure they received the information they requested or if they had any questions!

Can't say that I have had that problem in recent years, but I have been tempted to create my own phony email to keep telemarketers at bay

Mostly at open houses, not so much on the Inernet.  The guest book is full of John Smiths and Mary Browns.

If they do it is right away on the first call

They used to, I have since come up with some clever ideas that leads to real info. Not all the time, but at least more often.

No but then I dont use any forced leads, my clients come from sources who know that these people need me, or more often from the prospects themselves.

On the other hand when forced to give info at some site, where I really dont want to go onto a telemarketing list, like zillow, I have been known to give them an email number that I dont check often or a phone number that I also do not use often. and I am sure that many others do the same and many probably give false info as well when forced to give their info.

I don't normally get fake information.  They usually stammer and studder and make up some excuse not to give me the information.

Fake phone #'s.  Or the number is good then you call and they are not accepting calls.

Buyers are liars someone told me.

All the time!  Of course, I do the same at conventions and popups on websites so I don't really care.

I used to get those on my website. 

e-mail, or maybe I just can't read their writing.

I use forced registration and a a few are bogus but most are real. The bogus one are fake from top to bottom.

we rarely see that happening.... but when we do, it's always a fake email address....with no phone number

Good morning Paul. It would never occur to me to use anything but the real thing.

 Email.

Paul S. Henderson, Realtor, Broker, Tacoma Washington people do - and there are ways to find out correct numbers. However, working by referral altogether eliminates this problem.

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I usually get real email addresses and phone numbers from clients that are serious.