Hello folks,

I was wondering if I should open my secondary number for public use, what I mean is that anyone could use my number for temporary SMS to make a burner account or for some privacy reasons. I know that there are tons of services out there which provides a temp SMS however most of those numbers are blocked by all the big tech like G**gle, Micrsft etc, my number is new so it will take some time before they ban it as well.

I have a concern though, what will happen if someone tries to use my number for malicious purposes ( is it even possible that someone could use it in a way that will put me in trouble? ). that mobile number is going expire in 6 months anyway, so I guess it’s not an issue.

what do you say? your thoughts?

  • whoareu@lemmy.caOP
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    20 days ago

    Yeah I was afraid of doing that because of the reasons you said here.

    It doesn’t matter in what part of the world you are in

    TBH I am from a third world, fascist country where laws are jokes. If anything I can just say “ohh someone hacked my number somehow”. The police and authorities are literally illiterate.

    If 5 in 10 people would use it for good cause I am happy.

    • Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
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      20 days ago

      Like @[email protected] said, you’ll be even more vulnerable.

      If your country doesn’t care about their own law then if you end up in authorities’ radar you are going to suffer for not having law protect you.

      Please don’t do it. You’ll just fuck up your own situation. If you want to help people just volunteer your time or something, not your identity or your own security.

    • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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      20 days ago

      They’re “literally illiterate” and you think you can explain your way outta crimes that came from your phone? You’re going to end up in jail