Numbr: Disposable Phone Number
Tags: disposable, mobile, phone number, privacy | Added: 29 Sep, 2007 (7,828 Views)Numbr gives you free, disposable, and anonymous phone number that forwards incoming calls to any provided landline or mobile number. It’s an ideal way to advertise your contact number in unsafe places, i.e. classifieds listings, social networking sites, blogs and yet keep it secure from spammers.
Numbr Features
- Get auto-expiring, anonymous phone number and forward incoming calls to any home or mobile number.
- Get disposable number via website or by dialing ‘(415) 234-5678′.
- Keep number alive for as long as you need. Set it to expire in an hour, day, week or month.
- Send callers directly to voicemail.
- Call History: Access all of your call-records online<./li>
- Re-activate expired numbers at any time.
- Spammers Blocker: Built-in filter to block off telemarketers.
- Block annoying callers with a click of a button.
- Get a local number in over 28 major US cities.
- Note: Although Numbr is a free service, depending on your carrier plan regular phone charges may apply.
- iNumbr widget: embed widget on your blog or profile page.
Visit Numbr [www.numbr.com]
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[…] will be ending its service on December 15, 2007. As an alternative service, we recommend Numbr: Disposable Phone Number. Check it […]
I just want to get a free phone number to use, dont need this other stuff where do I need to go to get number and is it really totally free.
Well, you can use Numbr. Just disregard whatever features you don’t need.
[…] Along with the number, you also get access to dozens of cool functionalities, i.e. forward to voicemail, ability to activate/deactivate nr. at any time, etc. Read more: Numbr - Disposable Phone Number. […]
Alas, Numbr is no longer an option either at the present with no hint of when, if ever, it might be. Per their website when you click Get a number, you are taken to a page that reads:
“We are scaling our infrastructure to support rapid user base growth. During this upgrade, new Numbr allocation is limited to a select set of invited users.
Thanks for your continued support and feedback. Please come back later for some exciting updates.
-Team Numbr”
It’s been this way since I first visited it several weeks ago.
Any other alternatives out there for this? Also, does this change the CID and the ANSI for outgoing calls– as I believe the now defunct Camophone did? Toll-free numbers ALWAYS get your information, the logic being that it’s theirs since THEY are paying for the cost of the call.
Specifically, I’m looking for a way to call 800/888 numbers anonymously (e.g. a crime tip line, terrorist tip line, a company LP tip line, a news tip line, anonymous Employee Assistance Programs, etc.), but caller ID block doesn’t work since ANSI still gets sent through.
Short of going to a pay phone (if one can find one… in working order… much less with a booth for privacy!!), does anybody know of any way to make truly anonymous calls to 800/888 numbers… a service that strips or dummies both CID, ANSI, and is untraceable?
Toll-free numbers ALWAYS get your information, the logic being that it’s theirs since THEY are paying for the cost of the call.
Hi Pierre
I tried find something that would do the trick but had no luck. The only solution I have now would be to call them from pay phone numbers.Calling from mobile may work too but since I haven’t tried it personally I am not really sure about it. Plus it may be a bit costly.
I will keep my eyes open, if I find something I will either post it here or profile it on MakeUseOf.com
You used to be able to use IP Phones and change the ANSI info.
Not sure if that is still true.
If you really want to make it difficult to trace, you could bounce a IP call through an anonimiser site and out a public gateway.
However, as with anything electronic, If someone REALLY wants to find you they can. Just depends on how much time and effort they want to put in.
I’m not sure what happened to Numbr.com, but I can’t find the link to request a phone number; it looks like they offered that as they were testing out the service and have now moved on to providing professional service to paying clients.
As an alternative, I’ve found Google’s GrandCentral has worked well. Although it doesn’t give you an annonmous number per se, it does have decent call managing services, including the ability to play a “Not in Service” message to select callers (like ex’s!). A bonus is it will forward to Canadian numbers. Read my more of my thoughts: MinchinWeb - Free Phone Calls: GrandCentral