(MoneyWatch) Why aren't there temporary, disposable e-mail addresses for phone numbers? They exist for e-mail. After all, there are all sorts of situations in which it would be great to have a ...

Vumber does one thing and does it well. Provide a cheap and easy to use, disposable phone number and voicemail product. Vumber allows you to create a phone number from any area code you want, linked ...

When my daughter was born, we placed an advertisement for a nanny in a local newspaper. At 6:30 a.m. on the first day the ad ran, the phone started ringing. It was the first applicant out of hundreds ...

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Last year I shared three things you should know about Google Voice—basically a rundown of three cool ways to use the service. Here’s a fourth: Use it as a disposable phone number. See, when you sign ...

Some of us are familiar with the concept of “burner” cell phones from movies involving copious amounts of crime, but wouldn’t you know it, there are also legitimately legal uses for a temporary cell ...

Safe Talk is a new service in the UK that allows you to generate a temporary phone number to use for 7 days to give to people you don’t trust/know. It’s simple – text CALL to 80876 and get a temporary ...

Before the world was informed of the massive and invasive government spying programs run by the NSA and other countries, a mobile app called Burner appeared on the scene offering users disposable ...

Online verification has become a big part of how we stay safe and private on the web. Every app, website, or service now wants to confirm you’re real. But giving out your personal number can be risky.

Savvy online shoppers will often use disposable credit-card numbers (which are available from https://www.pcworld.com/tags/PayPal+Inc..html and some banks) to protect ...