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"Their wife might pick it up." If mine picked it up, shit……I’d never stop her talking long enough to speak to them myself | |||
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"With number now most of the time link to other social media. People will find your Facebook, Instagram etc etc so your private life can be disclosed " True, experienced that and unlinked ours.. | |||
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"Their wife might pick it up." Very true.. lol, obviously not a concern in our case | |||
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"Links to social medias are probably the biggest one if you were to have them on your profile. Wouldn’t take long for someone with skullduggery in mind, to find you on your other socials (if you have them)." That’s why I have a pay and go swingers SIM card that isn’t connected to anything and is in one off my older iPhones Also if number gets put anywhere or shared out it’s a easy snap sim and get a new free one And no needing to explain to family and friends about number change or blocking numbers | |||
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"Links to social medias are probably the biggest one if you were to have them on your profile. Wouldn’t take long for someone with skullduggery in mind, to find you on your other socials (if you have them)." Naturally we do, to be honest if we got to that point we'd already have their pictures and them ours.. We're friends with 3 couples on Facebook and obviously keep any reference to what they/we do well away.. | |||
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"Links to social medias are probably the biggest one if you were to have them on your profile. Wouldn’t take long for someone with skullduggery in mind, to find you on your other socials (if you have them). That’s why I have a pay and go swingers SIM card that isn’t connected to anything and is in one off my older iPhones Also if number gets put anywhere or shared out it’s a easy snap sim and get a new free one And no needing to explain to family and friends about number change or blocking numbers " This is an idea for when we move in together.. So you have little worry about giving that number out then we guess? | |||
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"I dont give my number i dont want to be asked at 3am if i like scary movies" Do not disturb? | |||
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"I dont give my number i dont want to be asked at 3am if i like scary movies" Damn there goes my Saturday night fun. | |||
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"I dont give my number i dont want to be asked at 3am if i like scary movies Do not disturb?" exactly dont desturb me | |||
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"I dont give my number i dont want to be asked at 3am if i like scary movies Damn there goes my Saturday night fun." sorry for your loss | |||
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"We have a swingers mobile, just an old phone we use for this lifestyle. " nicecouple have the shagphone i remember cos its red like commisioner gordons | |||
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"Links to social medias are probably the biggest one if you were to have them on your profile. Wouldn’t take long for someone with skullduggery in mind, to find you on your other socials (if you have them). That’s why I have a pay and go swingers SIM card that isn’t connected to anything and is in one off my older iPhones Also if number gets put anywhere or shared out it’s a easy snap sim and get a new free one And no needing to explain to family and friends about number change or blocking numbers This is an idea for when we move in together.. So you have little worry about giving that number out then we guess?" Nope I don’t as it’s just a throw away SIM card That sits switched off only gets switched on to arrange meets at a set time that me and the other person or people have agreed to it sits on for 15 minutes past sed time if not called or picked up gets switched back off Also if number gets shared around I can just snap the sim and order another free sim maybe loose £5 credit but that’s it Also comes in handy if at clubs or nightclubs and people want my number I can have that phone on me and give them that Works well | |||
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"I used to hand mines out, but after being contacted by the police (they got in contact with me cause my number was on his phone) Id rather just use my fab account than my personal phone number. Also Im not a fan of constant messaging on a phone so prefer keeping it to here nowadays. Then there is the whole social media thing that has been mentioned above." That is a new one.. Can imagine the pause when asked "Can you tell us your relationship with ......?" Eek! That is actually a scenario a burner phone could be worse for.. They'd potentially turn up at your house! As we said, not in any way a criticism. | |||
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"I used to hand mines out, but after being contacted by the police (they got in contact with me cause my number was on his phone) Id rather just use my fab account than my personal phone number. Also Im not a fan of constant messaging on a phone so prefer keeping it to here nowadays. Then there is the whole social media thing that has been mentioned above. That is a new one.. Can imagine the pause when asked "Can you tell us your relationship with ......?" Eek! That is actually a scenario a burner phone could be worse for.. They'd potentially turn up at your house! As we said, not in any way a criticism." If it's a burner phone then how would they turn up at your house. Burner phones are untraceable | |||
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"With number now most of the time link to other social media. People will find your Facebook, Instagram etc etc so your private life can be disclosed " This happened to me in the past. It took quite a while to regain my professional reputation but I lost a lot of work through it. Marc | |||
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"I used to hand mines out, but after being contacted by the police (they got in contact with me cause my number was on his phone) Id rather just use my fab account than my personal phone number. Also Im not a fan of constant messaging on a phone so prefer keeping it to here nowadays. Then there is the whole social media thing that has been mentioned above. That is a new one.. Can imagine the pause when asked "Can you tell us your relationship with ......?" Eek! That is actually a scenario a burner phone could be worse for.. They'd potentially turn up at your house! As we said, not in any way a criticism." yeah there was no realtionship, he was clingey, and I had blocked him but he still had my number and messages in his phone so when they contacted me it was a bit of a shock ive never used a burner phone ever and am not that active on fab all the time to bother with one everyone has there own way of doing fab mines works well for me only been ghosted once in 10 years | |||
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"I used to hand mines out, but after being contacted by the police (they got in contact with me cause my number was on his phone) Id rather just use my fab account than my personal phone number. Also Im not a fan of constant messaging on a phone so prefer keeping it to here nowadays. Then there is the whole social media thing that has been mentioned above. That is a new one.. Can imagine the pause when asked "Can you tell us your relationship with ......?" Eek! That is actually a scenario a burner phone could be worse for.. They'd potentially turn up at your house! As we said, not in any way a criticism. If it's a burner phone then how would they turn up at your house. Burner phones are untraceable " How so? It's a standard sim in a normal phone to our knowledge.. | |||
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"I used to hand mines out, but after being contacted by the police (they got in contact with me cause my number was on his phone) Id rather just use my fab account than my personal phone number. Also Im not a fan of constant messaging on a phone so prefer keeping it to here nowadays. Then there is the whole social media thing that has been mentioned above. That is a new one.. Can imagine the pause when asked "Can you tell us your relationship with ......?" Eek! That is actually a scenario a burner phone could be worse for.. They'd potentially turn up at your house! As we said, not in any way a criticism. If it's a burner phone then how would they turn up at your house. Burner phones are untraceable " I can assure you, first hand knowledge, they’re still traceable. Anything with a SIM card in can be traced very easily. | |||
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"Don’t really see the need to hand out phone numbers these days. There’s so many messaging apps around that were not bothered about swapping numbers" Guess after being fucked around by a couple it's a trust thing for us. We shifted our entire weekend to accommodate and they just disappeared with a rather pathetic excuse an hour after we were supposed to meet.. Won't do it again | |||
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"Unless it changed recently, it's quite hard to find someone or a personal account on Facebook and Insta (Meta companies) from a phone number. It changed roughly the same time as the introduction of GDPR. No idea about Chinese owned social media." Actually not, prior to unlinking mobile number's from our Facebook accounts, we had a couple we're meeting soon and an estate agent we have been dealing with pop up as friend suggestions.. Albeit Mr had their numbers saved as contact's (but why wouldn't you) | |||
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"Don’t really see the need to hand out phone numbers these days. There’s so many messaging apps around that were not bothered about swapping numbers Guess after being fucked around by a couple it's a trust thing for us. We shifted our entire weekend to accommodate and they just disappeared with a rather pathetic excuse an hour after we were supposed to meet.. Won't do it again " Would having their phone number have made any difference ? | |||
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"Don’t really see the need to hand out phone numbers these days. There’s so many messaging apps around that were not bothered about swapping numbers Guess after being fucked around by a couple it's a trust thing for us. We shifted our entire weekend to accommodate and they just disappeared with a rather pathetic excuse an hour after we were supposed to meet.. Won't do it again Would having their phone number have made any difference ?" Fair point and probably not, but feel the lack being able to contact allowed the swerve.. Let us be clear, it was their initial contact and invitation. Also m if we'd made arrangements to meet anyone swinging or vanilla , would we not be justified in calling? Believe it's manners really.. | |||
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"I don't use Instgrambook or whatever, but if I've got a meet arranged off here we always swap numbers " | |||
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"Privacy. Just privacy. " This for me. Fab and real world are totally separate for me. A handful of people I have met on here are now in my real world so they have my number. Other than that nope I don’t give mine x | |||
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"We have a swingers mobile, just an old phone we use for this lifestyle. nicecouple have the shagphone i remember cos its red like commisioner gordons " Yep. We do. We recently upgraded it actually | |||
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"Trying to understand why some are so nervous about it.. Not a critical comment! Each to their own etc.. We're not stupid and get the worry of hounding messages etc, but in this day and age you can just block a number, obviously we are talking about people you have confidence are genuine and had prior messages. What other reasons might we be missing guys? " Definitely with a couple we like a WhatsApp group you can see who’s chatting and get to know both half’s of the couple. Gave out our number once to a single guy and was bombarded with messages at all hours asking if we was horny so that’s kind of put us off doing that again. | |||
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"Privacy. Just privacy. " Agreed, we respect that utterly! Use telegram as well to that end. But to arrange something and then ghost.. Acceptable? We don't waste other people's time.. | |||
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"With number now most of the time link to other social media. People will find your Facebook, Instagram etc etc so your private life can be disclosed " Actually don't think that is still the case -- it used to work. (Spoken with disappointment LOL ) | |||
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"Trying to understand why some are so nervous about it.. Not a critical comment! Each to their own etc.. We're not stupid and get the worry of hounding messages etc, but in this day and age you can just block a number, obviously we are talking about people you have confidence are genuine and had prior messages. What other reasons might we be missing guys? Definitely with a couple we like a WhatsApp group you can see who’s chatting and get to know both half’s of the couple. Gave out our number once to a single guy and was bombarded with messages at all hours asking if we was horny so that’s kind of put us off doing that again. " That'll be happening shortly guy's x | |||
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"Phone number - if they can't trust me with their phone number, they certainly shouldn't trust their cock anywhere in the vicinity of my teeth. " This! | |||
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"Trying to understand why some are so nervous about it.. Not a critical comment! Each to their own etc.. We're not stupid and get the worry of hounding messages etc, but in this day and age you can just block a number, obviously we are talking about people you have confidence are genuine and had prior messages. What other reasons might we be missing guys? Definitely with a couple we like a WhatsApp group you can see who’s chatting and get to know both half’s of the couple. Gave out our number once to a single guy and was bombarded with messages at all hours asking if we was horny so that’s kind of put us off doing that again. " It takes literally seconds to block a number. | |||
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"Privacy. Just privacy. Agreed, we respect that utterly! Use telegram as well to that end. But to arrange something and then ghost.. Acceptable? We don't waste other people's time.." Neither do we. Ghosting is common, it's happened to us a few times. The thing is just as we can block their number they can block ours. We do keep a dedicated swinging phone though but only give the number once we've agreed a meet as in date, time, location | |||
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"Trying to understand why some are so nervous about it.. Not a critical comment! Each to their own etc.. We're not stupid and get the worry of hounding messages etc, but in this day and age you can just block a number, obviously we are talking about people you have confidence are genuine and had prior messages. What other reasons might we be missing guys? Definitely with a couple we like a WhatsApp group you can see who’s chatting and get to know both half’s of the couple. Gave out our number once to a single guy and was bombarded with messages at all hours asking if we was horny so that’s kind of put us off doing that again. It takes literally seconds to block a number. " They can call you from another number. | |||
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"Don’t really see the need to hand out phone numbers these days. There’s so many messaging apps around that were not bothered about swapping numbers Guess after being fucked around by a couple it's a trust thing for us. We shifted our entire weekend to accommodate and they just disappeared with a rather pathetic excuse an hour after we were supposed to meet.. Won't do it again " Unrelated to phones, but don’t ever rearrange vanilla plans for a first meet. If timings are difficult, try again next time. | |||
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"I don't use Instgrambook or whatever, but if I've got a meet arranged off here we always swap numbers " Best part is, there's a Lady who used to post on here quite regularly that came to stay at mine for a couple of nights lives in Suffolk, and she's got a crap signal on her phone | |||
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"Privacy. Just privacy. Agreed, we respect that utterly! Use telegram as well to that end. But to arrange something and then ghost.. Acceptable? We don't waste other people's time.. Neither do we. Ghosting is common, it's happened to us a few times. The thing is just as we can block their number they can block ours. We do keep a dedicated swinging phone though but only give the number once we've agreed a meet as in date, time, location " Fair enough, that is giving your number though and our point entirely.. We just won't bother if there's not the trust to give us numbers from now on. | |||
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" We just won't bother if there's not the trust to give us numbers from now on. " About half the posters on this thread have said they won't share their phone number so you are greatly reducing your number of potential meets | |||
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" We just won't bother if there's not the trust to give us numbers from now on. About half the posters on this thread have said they won't share their phone number so you are greatly reducing your number of potential meets" We're purely asking a question and don't see the point of your statement. If you have a different perspective we respect that. However to say what we've done and potentially consequences of that is personal. | |||
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" We're purely asking a question and don't see the point of your statement. If you have a different perspective we respect that. However to say what we've done and potentially consequences of that is personal." Apologies. | |||
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"Privacy. Just privacy. Agreed, we respect that utterly! Use telegram as well to that end. But to arrange something and then ghost.. Acceptable? We don't waste other people's time.. Neither do we. Ghosting is common, it's happened to us a few times. The thing is just as we can block their number they can block ours. We do keep a dedicated swinging phone though but only give the number once we've agreed a meet as in date, time, location Fair enough, that is giving your number though and our point entirely.. We just won't bother if there's not the trust to give us numbers from now on. " That's entirely your prerogative. We have reasons we won't interact with people too. | |||
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" We're purely asking a question and don't see the point of your statement. If you have a different perspective we respect that. However to say what we've done and potentially consequences of that is personal. Apologies. " Accepted with thanks! Have a good weekend! | |||
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"We have a swingers mobile, just an old phone we use for this lifestyle. nicecouple have the shagphone i remember cos its red like commisioner gordons " I have a shagbag, always ready for action be it dogging, party, club meet or gang bang. I'm an organised type of lady. | |||
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"We have a swingers mobile, just an old phone we use for this lifestyle. " Great idea... | |||
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"Links to social medias are probably the biggest one if you were to have them on your profile. Wouldn’t take long for someone with skullduggery in mind, to find you on your other socials (if you have them). That’s why I have a pay and go swingers SIM card that isn’t connected to anything and is in one off my older iPhones Also if number gets put anywhere or shared out it’s a easy snap sim and get a new free one And no needing to explain to family and friends about number change or blocking numbers This is an idea for when we move in together.. So you have little worry about giving that number out then we guess?" It's a burner phone essentially so no absolutely nothing to worry about Anyone who gives the main mobile number who also uses Facebook and social media are crazy imo but hen I'm tech minded and know the damage that could be done in the wrong hands. KJ | |||
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"Their wife might pick it up. If mine picked it up, shit……I’d never stop her talking long enough to speak to them myself " Haha a fellas number called me once and it turned out to be his wife... Was it yours? She was aggressive at first and I had to reason with her. I was, at the time, single and if she has beef, it's her husband she should be having a go for a breach of contract... It got quite civil by the end of our wee chat... | |||
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"so to each his own but no I don't give my number out there are too many apps about to chat on" A girlfriend who is an escort will not meet unless she speaks to potential clients on a number. It's for her safety as the police can ultimately find him if they need to. | |||
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"Links to social medias are probably the biggest one if you were to have them on your profile. Wouldn’t take long for someone with skullduggery in mind, to find you on your other socials (if you have them). That’s why I have a pay and go swingers SIM card that isn’t connected to anything and is in one off my older iPhones Also if number gets put anywhere or shared out it’s a easy snap sim and get a new free one And no needing to explain to family and friends about number change or blocking numbers " That’s actually a really good idea F (Mrs) | |||
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"I was traced onto Facebook, then stalked, threatened and a black-mail attempt. Threats against my family, my son and my work. Police involved. Giving ANY personal information is dangerous. " I agree... | |||
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"Trying to understand why some are so nervous about it.. Not a critical comment! Each to their own etc.. We're not stupid and get the worry of hounding messages etc, but in this day and age you can just block a number, obviously we are talking about people you have confidence are genuine and had prior messages. What other reasons might we be missing guys? " Neither of us has an issue giving our numbers out, but we will only share with people we get a ‘good vibe’ about after chatting on here for a while. You can’t access any private details about us on our social media unless you’re friends with either of us, and we don’t post pictures on here that have been posted elsewhere either. Usually we are happy for WhatsApp chats with people we get on with, but have recently discovered Kik as well. I suppose as well it depends on how private people want to keep their lifestyle choice - I am aware that some people absolutely do not want outed, and I guess that plays a factor in protecting personal details F (Mrs) | |||
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"I was traced onto Facebook, then stalked, threatened and a black-mail attempt. Threats against my family, my son and my work. Police involved. Giving ANY personal information is dangerous. " sorry that happened to you most men don't understand what we go through sometimes...something so simple as giving your number out can lead to so much ..... | |||
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"I was traced onto Facebook, then stalked, threatened and a black-mail attempt. Threats against my family, my son and my work. Police involved. Giving ANY personal information is dangerous. sorry that happened to you most men don't understand what we go through sometimes...something so simple as giving your number out can lead to so much ....." should say ppl not men as this could happen to either but you don't understand it unless it's actually happened to you or someone you are close to. | |||
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"Trying to understand why some are so nervous about it.. Not a critical comment! Each to their own etc.. We're not stupid and get the worry of hounding messages etc, but in this day and age you can just block a number, obviously we are talking about people you have confidence are genuine and had prior messages. What other reasons might we be missing guys? " I don't give my main/personal/work number out, ever. I have a second phone with a 30 day rolling contract for about £4 per month that I use purely for online hookups and even then, if I was to come off this site to chat to someone, I'd want it to be on KIK or TG, where no number is required. I was stalked by a guy at work about sixteen years ago, I was then stalked by an ex a few years ago who had shown no previous psychotic tendencies - and I'd known him for years, just not that side of him. You can block their number, sure, but they still HAVE your number, you can't erase it from their end once they've saved it. Some people may not have disabled 'search/find by mobile number' on various social media sites or communication apps (FB, SC, WA, TG, KIK, Linkedin), so a quick search on various sites and they could get your full name, employment/employer details, pictures of you, your friends, your family. Maybe you uploaded a picture stood at your front door with the house number and identifiable features on display (all depending on your privacy settings)? A lot of apps request access to your contacts and then suggest people in your phone book that you might want to add to the apps, so they can find you on other sites and apps that way (depending on your privacy settings). You can do a LOT with a mobile number. You can use it to find out much more online. It opens up a ton of extended information. Blocking their number isn't really effective. Your phone will still receive the text message (at least on Android), but it will be hidden in a spam and blocked folder. Temptation may get the better of your and you might check the folder to see if they've messaged you and see something you wish you hadn't. As I said, if you've forgotten to disable the 'search/find by number' or app access to contacts options, you might block their number and then find yourself getting messages on FB, SC, TG, WA and more. My local police force was placed into special measures. They don't have a great record or reputation when it comes to tackling online harassment. On my Android 11 phone, I can't see an option anywhere to automatically delete spam or blocked number texts, so they will sit in that folder until you manually go in and delete them or until Google auto deletes them, if that's a thing, it doesn't say. Likelihood is if there's a message there you won't be able to avoid the temptation to read it. They can still get free SIM cards from the likes of giffgaff or other providers for 99p at the shops and just top them up at the till and they can easily message you from new, throw away numbers. Depending on how they top up, they might not even need to register any personal information with the network. You can pick up certain SIMs at Tesco, top them up at the till and don't have to register any personal details, so it's very easy for idiots to get new, throw away numbers. They can still pass your number to their friends to call or harass you, if they are blocked. I've seen this happen a lot when I used to work in mobile telecommunications. Some friends and family are blindly loyal, and will believe and accept any story they're told by their friends or loved ones and psychos will usually get their friends to chip in with the dirty work if you've blocked their number. They can still call you from a withheld line. Sure, you can block calls from withheld numbers, but then you risk missing work calls, calls from hospital clinics, calls from the bank or credit card providers, lots of companies withhold their number when they call. I know my doctor's surgery used to, but they've since stopped, but some lines from the hospital still show up as withheld. My local sexual health clinic always makes me arrange a call back to discuss dispensing my PrEP every three months and then always tell me 'the call might show up as withheld so don't ignore it.' It's too much of a pain to keep blocking and unblocking withheld numbers. They can register your number for certain spam messages. My friend's ex registered her for a load of explicit spam when she left him after he cheated on her. She was getting like thirty e-mails about penis enlargements and other random crap every day until she created a new account. She started getting calls from Iraq, India and other random places and it was obvious he'd given her number out. They can maliciously go onto porn and sex sites and give your number out to a load of randoms, or simply for their own amusement. What's to stop them from sending private messages to people on here with your number in reply to 'dirty phone sex' threads? They can then delete their profile and their message history is deleted. They can add your number to all sorts of marketing sites, spam and survey sites so that you start getting texts and calls from all over the world, trying to sell you things, asking you to do surveys, or simply just trying to scam you. You'll call me paranoid no doubt, but it's actually all from personal experience and over ten years of working as a call centre manager for one of the largest mobile telecoms providers in the UK. I've had a mobile phone since I was about twelve so I've grown up with the technology and worked with it closely, including provisioning new lines, changing mobile numbers and dealing with customers who had been signed up to spam and marketing messages by vindictive ex partners or spurned hook ups. Most text info services require a text to be sent from the number that is registering, but some shady websites - that aren't regulated - will let anyone put in any random number. I don't give my primary number out at all. I use it for work and for all of my friends, medical stuff, banking and all of my online shopping. I have two factor verification setup on every site that I use and which offers it and I am an early adopter of online shopping. I use pretty much every site you can think of, all connected to my core mobile number for shipping or one time texts. It takes literally HOURS, even possibly an entire day to go through hundreds of apps, websites and contacts and to change your number on all of those sites if you need to get a new number due to harassment. You need to manually remove two factor authentication on every site and app that you use it with BEFORE you change your number, or you won't be able to receive the authorisation text to be able to begin the number change, and that's time consuming. I found this out the hard way with my Discord account and my personal online tax account. Discord wouldn't do a thing, tough s**t they told me. I was going to lose all of my servers, messaging history, contacts and all of my special titles that I'd been given for backing various Kickstarter campaigns. Thankfully the O2 store was able to reconnect my number as it hadn't been put back into the pool of available numbers, so I could reconnect it, get my codes and change the number over. It's a nightmare. You might have a cool number that you don't want to lose, that's really easy to remember. These sites are full of time wasters and game players. Be VERY careful who you give your number to. I have a second phone, with a second line that I use for hook ups. I have a disposable SIM that's only £4 per month on a 30 day rolling contract. I prefer to use apps that do not require a number like KIK. If trust is built, I'll give out the second number but after what my ex did, I think it would be a long time before I gave anyone my primary number again. I had a guy on here - no idea to this day who he was - who invited me to his place. The address he gave me was someone else's. When I got back to the car he messaged me to say he'd taken plenty of pictures of me and my car and that he just needed my name. I'm not sure if he intended to try and extort me or what (I've been out for 22 years), but it was unsettling. Imagine if he had my main mobile number! 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"Trying to understand why some are so nervous about it.. Not a critical comment! Each to their own etc.. We're not stupid and get the worry of hounding messages etc, but in this day and age you can just block a number, obviously we are talking about people you have confidence are genuine and had prior messages. What other reasons might we be missing guys? I don't give my main/personal/work number out, ever. I have a second phone with a 30 day rolling contract for about £4 per month that I use purely for online hookups and even then, if I was to come off this site to chat to someone, I'd want it to be on KIK or TG, where no number is required. I was stalked by a guy at work about sixteen years ago, I was then stalked by an ex a few years ago who had shown no previous psychotic tendencies - and I'd known him for years, just not that side of him. You can block their number, sure, but they still HAVE your number, you can't erase it from their end once they've saved it. Some people may not have disabled 'search/find by mobile number' on various social media sites or communication apps (FB, SC, WA, TG, KIK, Linkedin), so a quick search on various sites and they could get your full name, employment/employer details, pictures of you, your friends, your family. Maybe you uploaded a picture stood at your front door with the house number and identifiable features on display (all depending on your privacy settings)? A lot of apps request access to your contacts and then suggest people in your phone book that you might want to add to the apps, so they can find you on other sites and apps that way (depending on your privacy settings). You can do a LOT with a mobile number. You can use it to find out much more online. It opens up a ton of extended information. Blocking their number isn't really effective. Your phone will still receive the text message (at least on Android), but it will be hidden in a spam and blocked folder. Temptation may get the better of your and you might check the folder to see if they've messaged you and see something you wish you hadn't. As I said, if you've forgotten to disable the 'search/find by number' or app access to contacts options, you might block their number and then find yourself getting messages on FB, SC, TG, WA and more. My local police force was placed into special measures. They don't have a great record or reputation when it comes to tackling online harassment. On my Android 11 phone, I can't see an option anywhere to automatically delete spam or blocked number texts, so they will sit in that folder until you manually go in and delete them or until Google auto deletes them, if that's a thing, it doesn't say. Likelihood is if there's a message there you won't be able to avoid the temptation to read it. They can still get free SIM cards from the likes of giffgaff or other providers for 99p at the shops and just top them up at the till and they can easily message you from new, throw away numbers. Depending on how they top up, they might not even need to register any personal information with the network. You can pick up certain SIMs at Tesco, top them up at the till and don't have to register any personal details, so it's very easy for idiots to get new, throw away numbers. They can still pass your number to their friends to call or harass you, if they are blocked. I've seen this happen a lot when I used to work in mobile telecommunications. Some friends and family are blindly loyal, and will believe and accept any story they're told by their friends or loved ones and psychos will usually get their friends to chip in with the dirty work if you've blocked their number. They can still call you from a withheld line. Sure, you can block calls from withheld numbers, but then you risk missing work calls, calls from hospital clinics, calls from the bank or credit card providers, lots of companies withhold their number when they call. I know my doctor's surgery used to, but they've since stopped, but some lines from the hospital still show up as withheld. My local sexual health clinic always makes me arrange a call back to discuss dispensing my PrEP every three months and then always tell me 'the call might show up as withheld so don't ignore it.' It's too much of a pain to keep blocking and unblocking withheld numbers. They can register your number for certain spam messages. My friend's ex registered her for a load of explicit spam when she left him after he cheated on her. She was getting like thirty e-mails about penis enlargements and other random crap every day until she created a new account. She started getting calls from Iraq, India and other random places and it was obvious he'd given her number out. They can maliciously go onto porn and sex sites and give your number out to a load of randoms, or simply for their own amusement. What's to stop them from sending private messages to people on here with your number in reply to 'dirty phone sex' threads? They can then delete their profile and their message history is deleted. They can add your number to all sorts of marketing sites, spam and survey sites so that you start getting texts and calls from all over the world, trying to sell you things, asking you to do surveys, or simply just trying to scam you. You'll call me paranoid no doubt, but it's actually all from personal experience and over ten years of working as a call centre manager for one of the largest mobile telecoms providers in the UK. I've had a mobile phone since I was about twelve so I've grown up with the technology and worked with it closely, including provisioning new lines, changing mobile numbers and dealing with customers who had been signed up to spam and marketing messages by vindictive ex partners or spurned hook ups. Most text info services require a text to be sent from the number that is registering, but some shady websites - that aren't regulated - will let anyone put in any random number. I don't give my primary number out at all. I use it for work and for all of my friends, medical stuff, banking and all of my online shopping. I have two factor verification setup on every site that I use and which offers it and I am an early adopter of online shopping. I use pretty much every site you can think of, all connected to my core mobile number for shipping or one time texts. It takes literally HOURS, even possibly an entire day to go through hundreds of apps, websites and contacts and to change your number on all of those sites if you need to get a new number due to harassment. You need to manually remove two factor authentication on every site and app that you use it with BEFORE you change your number, or you won't be able to receive the authorisation text to be able to begin the number change, and that's time consuming. I found this out the hard way with my Discord account and my personal online tax account. Discord wouldn't do a thing, tough s**t they told me. I was going to lose all of my servers, messaging history, contacts and all of my special titles that I'd been given for backing various Kickstarter campaigns. Thankfully the O2 store was able to reconnect my number as it hadn't been put back into the pool of available numbers, so I could reconnect it, get my codes and change the number over. It's a nightmare. You might have a cool number that you don't want to lose, that's really easy to remember. These sites are full of time wasters and game players. Be VERY careful who you give your number to. I have a second phone, with a second line that I use for hook ups. I have a disposable SIM that's only £4 per month on a 30 day rolling contract. I prefer to use apps that do not require a number like KIK. If trust is built, I'll give out the second number but after what my ex did, I think it would be a long time before I gave anyone my primary number again. I had a guy on here - no idea to this day who he was - who invited me to his place. The address he gave me was someone else's. When I got back to the car he messaged me to say he'd taken plenty of pictures of me and my car and that he just needed my name. I'm not sure if he intended to try and extort me or what (I've been out for 22 years), but it was unsettling. Imagine if he had my main mobile number! NEVER give your only/primary number out to anyone you don't know and trust." Bet that took ages to type...should just left a voicemail | |||
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"Trying to understand why some are so nervous about it.. Not a critical comment! Each to their own etc.. We're not stupid and get the worry of hounding messages etc, but in this day and age you can just block a number, obviously we are talking about people you have confidence are genuine and had prior messages. What other reasons might we be missing guys? I don't give my main/personal/work number out, ever. I have a second phone with a 30 day rolling contract for about £4 per month that I use purely for online hookups and even then, if I was to come off this site to chat to someone, I'd want it to be on KIK or TG, where no number is required. I was stalked by a guy at work about sixteen years ago, I was then stalked by an ex a few years ago who had shown no previous psychotic tendencies - and I'd known him for years, just not that side of him. You can block their number, sure, but they still HAVE your number, you can't erase it from their end once they've saved it. Some people may not have disabled 'search/find by mobile number' on various social media sites or communication apps (FB, SC, WA, TG, KIK, Linkedin), so a quick search on various sites and they could get your full name, employment/employer details, pictures of you, your friends, your family. Maybe you uploaded a picture stood at your front door with the house number and identifiable features on display (all depending on your privacy settings)? A lot of apps request access to your contacts and then suggest people in your phone book that you might want to add to the apps, so they can find you on other sites and apps that way (depending on your privacy settings). You can do a LOT with a mobile number. You can use it to find out much more online. It opens up a ton of extended information. Blocking their number isn't really effective. Your phone will still receive the text message (at least on Android), but it will be hidden in a spam and blocked folder. Temptation may get the better of your and you might check the folder to see if they've messaged you and see something you wish you hadn't. As I said, if you've forgotten to disable the 'search/find by number' or app access to contacts options, you might block their number and then find yourself getting messages on FB, SC, TG, WA and more. My local police force was placed into special measures. They don't have a great record or reputation when it comes to tackling online harassment. On my Android 11 phone, I can't see an option anywhere to automatically delete spam or blocked number texts, so they will sit in that folder until you manually go in and delete them or until Google auto deletes them, if that's a thing, it doesn't say. Likelihood is if there's a message there you won't be able to avoid the temptation to read it. They can still get free SIM cards from the likes of giffgaff or other providers for 99p at the shops and just top them up at the till and they can easily message you from new, throw away numbers. Depending on how they top up, they might not even need to register any personal information with the network. You can pick up certain SIMs at Tesco, top them up at the till and don't have to register any personal details, so it's very easy for idiots to get new, throw away numbers. They can still pass your number to their friends to call or harass you, if they are blocked. I've seen this happen a lot when I used to work in mobile telecommunications. Some friends and family are blindly loyal, and will believe and accept any story they're told by their friends or loved ones and psychos will usually get their friends to chip in with the dirty work if you've blocked their number. They can still call you from a withheld line. Sure, you can block calls from withheld numbers, but then you risk missing work calls, calls from hospital clinics, calls from the bank or credit card providers, lots of companies withhold their number when they call. I know my doctor's surgery used to, but they've since stopped, but some lines from the hospital still show up as withheld. My local sexual health clinic always makes me arrange a call back to discuss dispensing my PrEP every three months and then always tell me 'the call might show up as withheld so don't ignore it.' It's too much of a pain to keep blocking and unblocking withheld numbers. They can register your number for certain spam messages. My friend's ex registered her for a load of explicit spam when she left him after he cheated on her. She was getting like thirty e-mails about penis enlargements and other random crap every day until she created a new account. She started getting calls from Iraq, India and other random places and it was obvious he'd given her number out. They can maliciously go onto porn and sex sites and give your number out to a load of randoms, or simply for their own amusement. What's to stop them from sending private messages to people on here with your number in reply to 'dirty phone sex' threads? They can then delete their profile and their message history is deleted. They can add your number to all sorts of marketing sites, spam and survey sites so that you start getting texts and calls from all over the world, trying to sell you things, asking you to do surveys, or simply just trying to scam you. You'll call me paranoid no doubt, but it's actually all from personal experience and over ten years of working as a call centre manager for one of the largest mobile telecoms providers in the UK. I've had a mobile phone since I was about twelve so I've grown up with the technology and worked with it closely, including provisioning new lines, changing mobile numbers and dealing with customers who had been signed up to spam and marketing messages by vindictive ex partners or spurned hook ups. Most text info services require a text to be sent from the number that is registering, but some shady websites - that aren't regulated - will let anyone put in any random number. I don't give my primary number out at all. I use it for work and for all of my friends, medical stuff, banking and all of my online shopping. I have two factor verification setup on every site that I use and which offers it and I am an early adopter of online shopping. I use pretty much every site you can think of, all connected to my core mobile number for shipping or one time texts. It takes literally HOURS, even possibly an entire day to go through hundreds of apps, websites and contacts and to change your number on all of those sites if you need to get a new number due to harassment. You need to manually remove two factor authentication on every site and app that you use it with BEFORE you change your number, or you won't be able to receive the authorisation text to be able to begin the number change, and that's time consuming. I found this out the hard way with my Discord account and my personal online tax account. Discord wouldn't do a thing, tough s**t they told me. I was going to lose all of my servers, messaging history, contacts and all of my special titles that I'd been given for backing various Kickstarter campaigns. Thankfully the O2 store was able to reconnect my number as it hadn't been put back into the pool of available numbers, so I could reconnect it, get my codes and change the number over. It's a nightmare. You might have a cool number that you don't want to lose, that's really easy to remember. These sites are full of time wasters and game players. Be VERY careful who you give your number to. I have a second phone, with a second line that I use for hook ups. I have a disposable SIM that's only £4 per month on a 30 day rolling contract. I prefer to use apps that do not require a number like KIK. If trust is built, I'll give out the second number but after what my ex did, I think it would be a long time before I gave anyone my primary number again. I had a guy on here - no idea to this day who he was - who invited me to his place. The address he gave me was someone else's. When I got back to the car he messaged me to say he'd taken plenty of pictures of me and my car and that he just needed my name. I'm not sure if he intended to try and extort me or what (I've been out for 22 years), but it was unsettling. Imagine if he had my main mobile number! NEVER give your only/primary number out to anyone you don't know and trust. Bet that took ages to type...should just left a voicemail " Not really, I use Swype so it's pretty fast to put something together . It's an important subject! | |||
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"I used to hand mines out, but after being contacted by the police (they got in contact with me cause my number was on his phone) Id rather just use my fab account than my personal phone number. Also Im not a fan of constant messaging on a phone so prefer keeping it to here nowadays. Then there is the whole social media thing that has been mentioned above. That is a new one.. Can imagine the pause when asked "Can you tell us your relationship with ......?" Eek! That is actually a scenario a burner phone could be worse for.. They'd potentially turn up at your house! As we said, not in any way a criticism. If it's a burner phone then how would they turn up at your house. Burner phones are untraceable How so? It's a standard sim in a normal phone to our knowledge.." You can obtain a sim without registering it. Buy a second hand phone for cash and a sim and use so untraceable | |||
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"I used to hand mines out, but after being contacted by the police (they got in contact with me cause my number was on his phone) Id rather just use my fab account than my personal phone number. Also Im not a fan of constant messaging on a phone so prefer keeping it to here nowadays. Then there is the whole social media thing that has been mentioned above. That is a new one.. Can imagine the pause when asked "Can you tell us your relationship with ......?" Eek! That is actually a scenario a burner phone could be worse for.. They'd potentially turn up at your house! As we said, not in any way a criticism. If it's a burner phone then how would they turn up at your house. Burner phones are untraceable How so? It's a standard sim in a normal phone to our knowledge.. You can obtain a sim without registering it. Buy a second hand phone for cash and a sim and use so untraceable " You could years ago but I'm pretty sure it won't activate now without giving your life story first.. | |||
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"Trying to understand why some are so nervous about it.. Not a critical comment! Each to their own etc.. We're not stupid and get the worry of hounding messages etc, but in this day and age you can just block a number, obviously we are talking about people you have confidence are genuine and had prior messages. What other reasons might we be missing guys? I don't give my main/personal/work number out, ever. I have a second phone with a 30 day rolling contract for about £4 per month that I use purely for online hookups and even then, if I was to come off this site to chat to someone, I'd want it to be on KIK or TG, where no number is required. I was stalked by a guy at work about sixteen years ago, I was then stalked by an ex a few years ago who had shown no previous psychotic tendencies - and I'd known him for years, just not that side of him. You can block their number, sure, but they still HAVE your number, you can't erase it from their end once they've saved it. Some people may not have disabled 'search/find by mobile number' on various social media sites or communication apps (FB, SC, WA, TG, KIK, Linkedin), so a quick search on various sites and they could get your full name, employment/employer details, pictures of you, your friends, your family. Maybe you uploaded a picture stood at your front door with the house number and identifiable features on display (all depending on your privacy settings)? A lot of apps request access to your contacts and then suggest people in your phone book that you might want to add to the apps, so they can find you on other sites and apps that way (depending on your privacy settings). You can do a LOT with a mobile number. You can use it to find out much more online. It opens up a ton of extended information. Blocking their number isn't really effective. Your phone will still receive the text message (at least on Android), but it will be hidden in a spam and blocked folder. Temptation may get the better of your and you might check the folder to see if they've messaged you and see something you wish you hadn't. As I said, if you've forgotten to disable the 'search/find by number' or app access to contacts options, you might block their number and then find yourself getting messages on FB, SC, TG, WA and more. My local police force was placed into special measures. They don't have a great record or reputation when it comes to tackling online harassment. On my Android 11 phone, I can't see an option anywhere to automatically delete spam or blocked number texts, so they will sit in that folder until you manually go in and delete them or until Google auto deletes them, if that's a thing, it doesn't say. Likelihood is if there's a message there you won't be able to avoid the temptation to read it. They can still get free SIM cards from the likes of giffgaff or other providers for 99p at the shops and just top them up at the till and they can easily message you from new, throw away numbers. Depending on how they top up, they might not even need to register any personal information with the network. You can pick up certain SIMs at Tesco, top them up at the till and don't have to register any personal details, so it's very easy for idiots to get new, throw away numbers. They can still pass your number to their friends to call or harass you, if they are blocked. I've seen this happen a lot when I used to work in mobile telecommunications. Some friends and family are blindly loyal, and will believe and accept any story they're told by their friends or loved ones and psychos will usually get their friends to chip in with the dirty work if you've blocked their number. They can still call you from a withheld line. Sure, you can block calls from withheld numbers, but then you risk missing work calls, calls from hospital clinics, calls from the bank or credit card providers, lots of companies withhold their number when they call. I know my doctor's surgery used to, but they've since stopped, but some lines from the hospital still show up as withheld. My local sexual health clinic always makes me arrange a call back to discuss dispensing my PrEP every three months and then always tell me 'the call might show up as withheld so don't ignore it.' It's too much of a pain to keep blocking and unblocking withheld numbers. They can register your number for certain spam messages. My friend's ex registered her for a load of explicit spam when she left him after he cheated on her. She was getting like thirty e-mails about penis enlargements and other random crap every day until she created a new account. She started getting calls from Iraq, India and other random places and it was obvious he'd given her number out. They can maliciously go onto porn and sex sites and give your number out to a load of randoms, or simply for their own amusement. What's to stop them from sending private messages to people on here with your number in reply to 'dirty phone sex' threads? They can then delete their profile and their message history is deleted. They can add your number to all sorts of marketing sites, spam and survey sites so that you start getting texts and calls from all over the world, trying to sell you things, asking you to do surveys, or simply just trying to scam you. You'll call me paranoid no doubt, but it's actually all from personal experience and over ten years of working as a call centre manager for one of the largest mobile telecoms providers in the UK. I've had a mobile phone since I was about twelve so I've grown up with the technology and worked with it closely, including provisioning new lines, changing mobile numbers and dealing with customers who had been signed up to spam and marketing messages by vindictive ex partners or spurned hook ups. Most text info services require a text to be sent from the number that is registering, but some shady websites - that aren't regulated - will let anyone put in any random number. I don't give my primary number out at all. I use it for work and for all of my friends, medical stuff, banking and all of my online shopping. I have two factor verification setup on every site that I use and which offers it and I am an early adopter of online shopping. I use pretty much every site you can think of, all connected to my core mobile number for shipping or one time texts. It takes literally HOURS, even possibly an entire day to go through hundreds of apps, websites and contacts and to change your number on all of those sites if you need to get a new number due to harassment. You need to manually remove two factor authentication on every site and app that you use it with BEFORE you change your number, or you won't be able to receive the authorisation text to be able to begin the number change, and that's time consuming. I found this out the hard way with my Discord account and my personal online tax account. Discord wouldn't do a thing, tough s**t they told me. I was going to lose all of my servers, messaging history, contacts and all of my special titles that I'd been given for backing various Kickstarter campaigns. Thankfully the O2 store was able to reconnect my number as it hadn't been put back into the pool of available numbers, so I could reconnect it, get my codes and change the number over. It's a nightmare. You might have a cool number that you don't want to lose, that's really easy to remember. These sites are full of time wasters and game players. Be VERY careful who you give your number to. I have a second phone, with a second line that I use for hook ups. I have a disposable SIM that's only £4 per month on a 30 day rolling contract. I prefer to use apps that do not require a number like KIK. If trust is built, I'll give out the second number but after what my ex did, I think it would be a long time before I gave anyone my primary number again. I had a guy on here - no idea to this day who he was - who invited me to his place. The address he gave me was someone else's. When I got back to the car he messaged me to say he'd taken plenty of pictures of me and my car and that he just needed my name. I'm not sure if he intended to try and extort me or what (I've been out for 22 years), but it was unsettling. Imagine if he had my main mobile number! 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"Links to social medias are probably the biggest one if you were to have them on your profile. Wouldn’t take long for someone with skullduggery in mind, to find you on your other socials (if you have them). That’s why I have a pay and go swingers SIM card that isn’t connected to anything and is in one off my older iPhones Also if number gets put anywhere or shared out it’s a easy snap sim and get a new free one And no needing to explain to family and friends about number change or blocking numbers " The same, protect yourself! | |||
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"I don't give my main/personal/work number out, ever. I have a second phone with a 30 day rolling contract for about £4 per month that I use purely for online hookups and even then, if I was to come off this site to chat to someone, I'd want it to be on KIK or TG, where no number is required. I was stalked by a guy at work about sixteen years ago, I was then stalked by an ex a few years ago who had shown no previous psychotic tendencies - and I'd known him for years, just not that side of him. You can block their number, sure, but they still HAVE your number, you can't erase it from their end once they've saved it. Some people may not have disabled 'search/find by mobile number' on various social media sites or communication apps (FB, SC, WA, TG, KIK, Linkedin), so a quick search on various sites and they could get your full name, employment/employer details, pictures of you, your friends, your family. Maybe you uploaded a picture stood at your front door with the house number and identifiable features on display (all depending on your privacy settings)? A lot of apps request access to your contacts and then suggest people in your phone book that you might want to add to the apps, so they can find you on other sites and apps that way (depending on your privacy settings). You can do a LOT with a mobile number. You can use it to find out much more online. It opens up a ton of extended information. Blocking their number isn't really effective. Your phone will still receive the text message (at least on Android), but it will be hidden in a spam and blocked folder. Temptation may get the better of your and you might check the folder to see if they've messaged you and see something you wish you hadn't. As I said, if you've forgotten to disable the 'search/find by number' or app access to contacts options, you might block their number and then find yourself getting messages on FB, SC, TG, WA and more. My local police force was placed into special measures. They don't have a great record or reputation when it comes to tackling online harassment. On my Android 11 phone, I can't see an option anywhere to automatically delete spam or blocked number texts, so they will sit in that folder until you manually go in and delete them or until Google auto deletes them, if that's a thing, it doesn't say. Likelihood is if there's a message there you won't be able to avoid the temptation to read it. They can still get free SIM cards from the likes of giffgaff or other providers for 99p at the shops and just top them up at the till and they can easily message you from new, throw away numbers. Depending on how they top up, they might not even need to register any personal information with the network. You can pick up certain SIMs at Tesco, top them up at the till and don't have to register any personal details, so it's very easy for idiots to get new, throw away numbers. They can still pass your number to their friends to call or harass you, if they are blocked. I've seen this happen a lot when I used to work in mobile telecommunications. Some friends and family are blindly loyal, and will believe and accept any story they're told by their friends or loved ones and psychos will usually get their friends to chip in with the dirty work if you've blocked their number. They can still call you from a withheld line. Sure, you can block calls from withheld numbers, but then you risk missing work calls, calls from hospital clinics, calls from the bank or credit card providers, lots of companies withhold their number when they call. I know my doctor's surgery used to, but they've since stopped, but some lines from the hospital still show up as withheld. My local sexual health clinic always makes me arrange a call back to discuss dispensing my PrEP every three months and then always tell me 'the call might show up as withheld so don't ignore it.' It's too much of a pain to keep blocking and unblocking withheld numbers. They can register your number for certain spam messages. My friend's ex registered her for a load of explicit spam when she left him after he cheated on her. She was getting like thirty e-mails about penis enlargements and other random crap every day until she created a new account. She started getting calls from Iraq, India and other random places and it was obvious he'd given her number out. They can maliciously go onto porn and sex sites and give your number out to a load of randoms, or simply for their own amusement. What's to stop them from sending private messages to people on here with your number in reply to 'dirty phone sex' threads? They can then delete their profile and their message history is deleted. They can add your number to all sorts of marketing sites, spam and survey sites so that you start getting texts and calls from all over the world, trying to sell you things, asking you to do surveys, or simply just trying to scam you. You'll call me paranoid no doubt, but it's actually all from personal experience and over ten years of working as a call centre manager for one of the largest mobile telecoms providers in the UK. I've had a mobile phone since I was about twelve so I've grown up with the technology and worked with it closely, including provisioning new lines, changing mobile numbers and dealing with customers who had been signed up to spam and marketing messages by vindictive ex partners or spurned hook ups. Most text info services require a text to be sent from the number that is registering, but some shady websites - that aren't regulated - will let anyone put in any random number. I don't give my primary number out at all. I use it for work and for all of my friends, medical stuff, banking and all of my online shopping. I have two factor verification setup on every site that I use and which offers it and I am an early adopter of online shopping. I use pretty much every site you can think of, all connected to my core mobile number for shipping or one time texts. It takes literally HOURS, even possibly an entire day to go through hundreds of apps, websites and contacts and to change your number on all of those sites if you need to get a new number due to harassment. You need to manually remove two factor authentication on every site and app that you use it with BEFORE you change your number, or you won't be able to receive the authorisation text to be able to begin the number change, and that's time consuming. I found this out the hard way with my Discord account and my personal online tax account. Discord wouldn't do a thing, tough s**t they told me. I was going to lose all of my servers, messaging history, contacts and all of my special titles that I'd been given for backing various Kickstarter campaigns. Thankfully the O2 store was able to reconnect my number as it hadn't been put back into the pool of available numbers, so I could reconnect it, get my codes and change the number over. It's a nightmare. You might have a cool number that you don't want to lose, that's really easy to remember. These sites are full of time wasters and game players. Be VERY careful who you give your number to. I have a second phone, with a second line that I use for hook ups. I have a disposable SIM that's only £4 per month on a 30 day rolling contract. I prefer to use apps that do not require a number like KIK. If trust is built, I'll give out the second number but after what my ex did, I think it would be a long time before I gave anyone my primary number again. I had a guy on here - no idea to this day who he was - who invited me to his place. The address he gave me was someone else's. When I got back to the car he messaged me to say he'd taken plenty of pictures of me and my car and that he just needed my name. I'm not sure if he intended to try and extort me or what (I've been out for 22 years), but it was unsettling. Imagine if he had my main mobile number! NEVER give your only/primary number out to anyone you don't know and trust. Excellent post!! " Thank you. I know it's a long post but it is very important and worth reading. To the guy saying that you can't register a new number without giving your life story - you can. Most supermarkets sell pay as you go SIMs at the till and you can still buy top ups at certain stores. I recently had to get a Vodafone SIM and topped it up with £10. I had to test the network coverage and data speeds because I was having issues with my Talk Mobile SIM and they were denying that there was a network fault. Turns out I had the same issue with the Vodafone SIM and when I called Vodafone they made me register my personal details as the number was live, but no user info was attached to it. One of the three masts in my area was down and the traffic was redirecting to only one of the other two, whilst the third picked up no additional traffic, resulting in congestion, poor signal and slow data speeds. In this scenario they might have a rough location registered for the SIM, though the police may need to be involved to see the exact location and they will have the IMEI number of the device you're using, but that's it. | |||
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"I used to hand mines out, but after being contacted by the police (they got in contact with me cause my number was on his phone) Id rather just use my fab account than my personal phone number. Also Im not a fan of constant messaging on a phone so prefer keeping it to here nowadays. Then there is the whole social media thing that has been mentioned above. That is a new one.. Can imagine the pause when asked "Can you tell us your relationship with ......?" Eek! That is actually a scenario a burner phone could be worse for.. They'd potentially turn up at your house! As we said, not in any way a criticism. If it's a burner phone then how would they turn up at your house. Burner phones are untraceable How so? It's a standard sim in a normal phone to our knowledge.. You can obtain a sim without registering it. Buy a second hand phone for cash and a sim and use so untraceable You could years ago but I'm pretty sure it won't activate now without giving your life story first.. " Not at all. Did it 2 weeks ago. | |||
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"I never give out my number, except to immediate family; parent, sibling, my kids and for medical appointments My friends contact me on Facebook messenger I’m not having blokes ring me at 3am wanting to wank off, blocking numbers doesn’t work as they just withhold their number - it’s far easier not to give out the number at all I do have telegram I use for a select few contacts, that is by username not phone number so safer to use " Blocking their number would work they wouldn't be able to call you even if they did withhold the number. They can however find you from a different number. | |||
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"What a lot of people don't realise is their phone number is linked to a lot of social media accounts. Somebody could find out quite a lot about you with your phone number depending on what privacy settings you have. " Yeah I don’t link my number to my socials, I get a lot of unsolicited messages on my socials and don’t want them trying to call me! | |||
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"What a lot of people don't realise is their phone number is linked to a lot of social media accounts. Somebody could find out quite a lot about you with your phone number depending on what privacy settings you have. Yeah I don’t link my number to my socials, I get a lot of unsolicited messages on my socials and don’t want them trying to call me! " Same here. | |||
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