Anonymous VoIP Calling

If you want more features, consider Craigsnumber, a free service that auto-generates a phone number where people can reach you. Callers dial it and record a short introductory message, then Craigsnumber calls you at your designated number and plays the message. You decide whether to accept it.

Anonymous VoIP Calling
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By By Paul D. Kretkowski
Don’t want the world to know your landline, cell or VoIP phone numbers? Several technologies help anonymize your phone number or otherwise make it tougher for callers to reach you. Some applications center on VoIP-enabled online dating—Jangl’s MatchTalk service for Match.com, for example, which creates an anonymous number that two people can use to call one another.

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If you want more features, consider Craigsnumber, a free service that auto-generates a phone number where people can reach you. Callers dial it and record a short introductory message, then Craigsnumber calls you at your designated number and plays the message. You decide whether to accept it. Not only do callers stay clueless about your real phone numbers, they can’t even reach you through your Craigsnumber unless you permit it.

Also, Craigsnumbers are not re-used, ensuring that you don’t get any calls meant for the person selling that roll-top desk on eBay three weeks ago.


Call Handling/Blocking Another service, Jaxtr, works like this: Sign up for Jaxtr and get a designated URL for yourself; type in another person’s designated Jaxtr URL; type in your phone number; Jaxtr calls you; then it calls the other person and you’re connected, anonymously and even internationally, for the price of a local call.

It’s pretty standard so far—but Jaxtr can also handle calls on a per-caller basis, putting some people through, while anyone you’re feuding with gets shunted to voice mail. In addition, Jaxtr’s VoiceBlast feature promises (or threatens, depending on your perspective) to bring prerecorded voice greetings to people’s blogs.

Once it’s out of beta, Jaxtr will price services on the Jajah model: Most people can use the service (in moderation) for free, since power users pick up the tab by paying for premium services. Jaxtr has no for-pay users right now, so this would be an excellent time for you to make some anonymous calls that are both free and guilt-free.

If your phone number (VoIP or otherwise) is already public, you can block unwanted callers using Caller ID Manager from Privacy Corps, a $100 device that blocks up to 175 numbers, area codes or even prefixes while giving you the ability to receive calls only from specific numbers. Alternately, if VoicePulse is your VoIP provider, you can access a large menu of call-handling capabilities to block telemarketers and anonymous or unavailable callers, schedule do-not-disturb times and modify how your phone rings depending on the caller.

Getting Unblocked Finally, if someone—whether it’s a telecom provider, your employer or your national government —blocks your VoIP calls by weeding out Skype or other VoIP packets, you have two major options.

First, routing calls through a virtual private network (VPN) means all your packets are encrypted and unreadable, and at least one observer thinks this will cause VoIP providers to start including VPN capability as a standard feature. If you can’t access a VPN, though, you can turn to companies like Solegy, whose products encrypt VoIP packets and accompanying information without resorting to a VPN, and still render them unreadable to prying eyes and ears. Happy dialing.

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