I would hope people have enough smarts to understand that contact information surrounding non-confirmed entities should be treated carefully.
Someone in this thread were making assumptions that they had to scramble some information randomly, and started calling a number I had not given them. What if it had connected? What if 100 people had started calling that number? Please consider that side too. Hope that clarifies.
Understood, but if I can provide some feedback, I would say that this guidance is appreciated up front if these things are out of bounds. I personally would not have dialed any numbers, or googled any addresses or IP addresses, but it's not unreasonable to see how people would have come to those conclusions, especially given the nature of the previous clues (one even leading to someone's business and a phone number - and I felt extremely uneasy about making that call as one of the first people here to do it).
I understand the need course correct and puppet master this thing, but the posture that has been taken when doing so comes across as a bit condescending and judgmental from my perspective, which I am sure is not intentional, but sucks the fun out of things all the same.