Thinking about opening my secondary number for public (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago by kionite231@lemmy.ca to c/general@lemmy.world

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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?

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[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 9 points 3 weeks ago

Well meaning but terrible idea.

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 weeks ago

Could you elaborate please, I mean yeah there is some risk but what part made you think it's a "terrible" idea?

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