The creator of A Tale In The Desert wrote the following:

Interesting fact: Over 50,000 people have [my personal] phone number, and in the 2+ years that I’ve been giving it out (since ATITD 1 went live), I’ve only had 19 inappropriate phone calls. And my favorite of those 19 was from a developer at Blizzard who said "some of us here just wanted to know if this was for real."