Sometimes you have to give your number in public, but don’t want to reveal your real phone number. 

For example, Craigslist, eBay, Twitter or Facebook etc.  Sometimes you are in a conference and want the members to contact you for any further questions.  Or may be you want to give this number for your recent online purchases so that FedEx, UPS or USPS guys can reach you to schedule pick-up or drop-off.

You obviously don’t want to invite Spam and unnecessary marketing calls from Auto Insurance companies and people giving you all expense paid vacation to Hawaii. 

inumbr a FREE service can help you get a FREE number you can share in public, no matter what but still protect your privacy.  How to get this free number, please follow the following steps:

  1. Visit inumbr.
  2. Fill up the CAPTCHA words to confirm you are a human.
  3. Select Area Code you want the number from, e.g. Detroit (313), Chicago (773), Las Vegas (702) etc.

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  4. Choose when you want to make this number expire.
  5. Choose where to forward the calls from this new number.  Enter you actual work or cell phone number.
  6. Enter Email address for account activation.
  7. Accept the terms and hit submit.
  8. On the next screen you will receive you new number with associated details, as shown below.

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Once you activate your account, you can extend the expiration date if you want and have more control over this new number.

If you are a blogger or web site owner, you may embed a code on your website as well for your visitors to contact you.

So now you know how to share your number publicly but still protect your privacy.  Let us know in comments how did you like this article and this tip.  Also I would love to know if there is anything similar you guys are using.  Throw in your weirdest views here…

[via Lifehacker]


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