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When you post an ad on CraigsList, you're given a disposable, anonymous email address that forwards to an address of your choosing and expires in a week. Someone has come up with something similar for voice. Craigsnumber will give you a free temporary phone number that will forward to a number of your choice for an hour, a day, a week or a month before expiring. Numbers are available in 14 cities, and all seem to be extensions of a finite number of phone numbers. This is all obviously wired with VoIP technology; I'm sure there's an Asterisk PBX somewhere in the mix. Who's doing this? We don't know. An audio file from the purported founder says he's staying undercover until his lawyers tell him it's OK. Oh, and there's no connection, other than the name, between CraigsList and Craigsnumber. You can get your number from the website or by dialing 415-234-5678.
For more information about Craigsnumber:
- read the website from Craigsnumber
Comments
Posted by Frank | January 12, 2007 - 10:43am
I checked a few of the NPA/NXX pairs and it looks like the numbers belong to a CLEC called CommPartners.
Sometimes the calls show CallerID, sometimes they show 000-000-0000.
Frank
Posted by Anonymous | April 5, 2007 - 4:46pm
This is cool. There is a lot of information on the website. I used it to sell my car last week and worked like a charm.
Thanks for the pointer. Keep'em coming.
NA
Posted by Barnabas Kendall | February 25, 2009 - 4:40pm
Hi, I noticed CraigsNumber.com doesn't work anymore, redirects elsewhere. I built a replacement service and launched it this week: ThisLineIsSecure.com. What do you think?
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