New Privacy Tool Available to Consumers

If you have ever wanted to give someone a way to call you, without giving out your real phone number, there are a couple of new services on the market that may interest you. They allow anyone to setup a disposable phone number to protect their privacy. Better yet, the cost is very reasonable.

MyPrivateLine.com and MyClassAdd.com both provide disposable, toll free numbers to anyone willing to pay for them. The services work like a debit card. You purchase minutes, usually in $5 increments. The amount you are billed per minute ranges from $0.15 to $0.20.

When you give someone access to your number, they dial it just like any other phone number. When you setup the service, you specify what personal phone number you want it to connect to. This means that if you can receive calls on your cell phone, home phone or even an office line without ever having to give out your real number.

There are a multitude of reasons that you may want to consider using a disposable phone number. If you publish information to a website, blog or personal home page, you may want to provide a phone number that you can easily disconnect. People who are victims of domestic violence may want to be able to provide a phone number to people that can’t be traced to a particular address. And people who still believe that personal privacy is important, may just want to use a service like this because they decide that their personal business is nobody else’s business.

One of the primary markets for disposable numbers is in the area of personal/classified ads and online dating. When placing these kinds of ads, many people would prefer the ability to keep their actual phone number private. With these new services they can.

The fact is that when you give out your phone number, you provide the recipient with a door to significantly more information about you. There area wide variety of free reverse directory services available on the internet. Using one of these services it can often be determined where you live.

Anyone willing to pay for a directory lookup can get even more information. This may include where you work, how much you make, how many children you have, what property you own and possibly your Social Security Number. There are many paid directory services that can provide this information with nothing more than a phone number, and at a cost of less that $100. Everything required to steal your identity.

These new services provide consumers with an easy and effective means to protect their privacy at a reasonable price.

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