Mainly, people use their own phone numbers to make calls, send and receive SMS, get mobile Internet, and so on. This “so on” includes one very important option – connecting phone numbers to social network profiles, banking apps, games, and other apps.
This feature helps people to make their accounts safe, but there are some troubles: your phone number can be stolen. That’s why people designed virtual phone numbers to receive SMS.
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What is a virtual phone number for SMS?
Disposable phone number – exactly the normal number, but without a carrier. It means that this number has no owners. It can be shared between groups of people.
To make you fully understand this topic I will give an example. You can buy a phone number for 1 service to receive 1 SMS from this service. This message will contain OTP for your sign-up procedure. Another man will be able to get exactly the same number for other services. That’s why these numbers are cheap.
Why do you need a virtual phone number?
The answer is easy, I have a few reasons to use virtual phone numbers everywhere excluding bank apps:
- Anonymity: nobody will have the opportunity to track your activity by phone number.
- Safety: hackers won’t get access to your accounts anywhere if they get access to your phone number
- Spam: as we know, big companies sell their databases to marketing companies. If your disposable phone number would be sold, you won’t receive lots of spam messages and calls.
That’s why you should go to every of your account and change your phone number to a disposable one.
Where can you buy a disposable phone number?
If we speak about the country, you can buy a phone number anywhere in the world. For example, SMS-Man company has temporary phone number for every app in the world from almost every country in the world. Their countries list counts more than 150 countries, from the USA to Australia.
To buy a virtual phone number you must visit the website, TG bot, or PC application, sign up, top up your balance with some funds and start buying your way to anonymity.
How to use a virtual phone number?
Usage of a virtual phone number is the same easier than using a real one. You need just put it in sign up form, get an SMS, extract the SMS code from the website and finally pass sign up procedure with a disposable phone number, that’s all
Which applications allow you to use virtual numbers?
Almost every application can be signed up with a virtual phone number. The virtual number has no difference from the real one. Nobody can truly differ between real numbers and virtual numbers.
Conclusion
I prefer to use virtual number for SMS everywhere. All my accounts signed up with virtual phone numbers. It is cheaper, safer, easier, and more anonymous than using a real phone number.
Use disposable phone numbers and stay safe!