Exactly. For folks *so* intent on "I have to do this", I have no problems staring them in the eyes and giving them a bogus name, address and phone number, if they insist. Am I breaking a law by doing so? Am I pissing them off? :>
If they want to be unreasonable, I can surely be just as unreasonable! :>
My wife used to write a lot of checks. Businesses would ask her to write our phone number on the check (as it wasn't preprinted). She would. I quizzed her: What would they need that for? In case the check bounced? Have we ever bounced a check? Are we ever LIKELY to bounce a check? No! Then, they will NEVER need to call that number! So, they can just as easily NEVER call a WRONG number!! :>