@sickburnbro If you have a company phone, they ask the company who it's assigned to, and find you. The goal is to be able to reach out and hit a real person behind the account. That's why the smart sites ban soft phone numbers like Google Voice, because anyone can get those anonymously.

You can get burner phones for cash too, for now, but that's a tiny segment of the market and relies on big mobile SIM cards anyway. Those carriers sometimes require personal verification before they give you a number too.