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One small but important issue with making phone calls to the owners of websites.
People lie. Assuming you ever get a person on the far end and not a machine doing the lying.
Just because it has a phone number guarantees nothing. In the case of a education domain it certainly has a higher chance of confirming the veracity of a site in question. In the case of the thread this originally came from I would think it entirely possible to get the number of the institution and verify this study.
If however, we were to take this site as an example. Is there a number to call for a first time visitor? No there is not. Would there be any guarantee that who or what picks up on the other end is legit if there were? Of course not.
The overall concept of taking precautions of course is advisable. Not sure why everyone is doggedly sticking to this somewhat silly (and of limited use) premise of making phone calls.
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