Few people think about the benefits of having a second phone number or temporary number. Perhaps because you would ordinarily need to either carry two separate phones with you wherever you go or have a dual SIM-capable phone. Not to mention the fact that you’d have to actually pay the extra carrier charges that come along with owning a second SIM card!
However, the benefits of having a second phone number are huge — and you can get one for 100% FREE with ScamCheck. If you’re just interested in getting your hands on a completely free second/virtual phone number, skip to the end of the article, but if you want to learn how having a second phone number can help you out, keep on reading!
3 Reasons You Need a Second Phone Number/Temporary Number
#1 — Protection from data leaks/breaches
We’ve all grown accustomed to seeing news about large-scale data breaches nowadays. After all, it’s rare that a month goes by without another company suffering one, often compromising hundreds of millions of customers’ data as a result.
When we do business with companies (shopping online, signing up for various services, for example), we invariably need to give them lots of information — full name, email address, phone number, etc. When you have a second phone number, you can give it to companies instead of your real phone number, so if they unfortunately suffer a data breach, your real phone number isn’t compromised.
Scammers often access leaked data and will send the people affected by the leak lots of scams such as phishing text messages. Having a second phone number will stop them from sending you scam/spam content to your real number.
#2 — You can keep your personal number private
There are plenty of reasons why you may not want to share your real phone number with someone — perhaps you’re selling something on Craigslist or your friend has set you up with a blind date. In situations such as those, it’s perfectly reasonable to have some minor concerns about sharing your real phone number.
Well, with a second phone number, you don’t have to! And because a second phone number looks just like a real phone number, whenever you share it with someone, they will never know that it’s not your real number, so win-win!
#3 — Separate your work and personal lives
With so many of us having experienced working from home during COVID, we know what it feels like to have our work lives blend in too far with our personal lives. Having a second phone number that can be used exclusively for work matters can enable you to easily keep the two separate.
This can be especially helpful if you’re starting a small business or side hustle. You can keep your main phone number private and use your second phone number with your new venture!
How to Get a Second Phone Number/Temporary Number for FREE
With our 100% FREE app, ScamCheck, you can get a second phone number completely free of charge! It’s a brand-new feature that we’re just rolling out, so it doesn’t presently support everything that it will in the future (you can’t currently make or take phone calls, for example). But you can use it to receive and reply to texts, so give your second number to companies when you sign up for their services and keep your personal number private and spam free!
ScamCheck has lots of other great features and is available for both Android and iOS, too. So, what are you waiting for? Click the button below to get your free second phone number today!
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By 0602110832 | July 5, 2023I had to do a factory reset on my phone. After the factory reset, I re-downloaded the Trend Micro Check app and entered my phone number to receive the second number, but kept receiving “You already applied for a 2nd phone number” so uninstalled it.
By Monica Camacho | December 30, 2022Love the idea of having a text only number.
By SarahW | December 30, 2022Hi Walter,
Thank you for your feedback.
While Trend Micro Check doesn’t currently support the ability to make or receive calls, it’s a feature that we will be adding in the future. However, right now you can use the second phone number to receive and reply to text messages. If a company needed to send you a security/2FA code, it would work perfectly for that, for example.
Best,
Trend MicroBy Trend Micro | December 27, 2022Hi David,
Thank you for your feedback.
While Trend Micro Check doesn’t currently support the ability to make or receive calls, it’s a feature that we will be adding in the future. However, right now you can use the second phone number to receive and reply to text messages. If a company needed to send you a security/2FA code, it would work perfectly for that, for example.
Best,
Trend MicroBy Trend Micro | December 27, 2022Hi E Jones,
Thank you for your comment.
While Trend Micro Check doesn’t currently support the ability to make or receive calls, it’s a feature that we will be adding in the future. However, right now you can use the second phone number to receive and reply to text messages.
Best,
Trend MicroBy Trend Micro | December 27, 2022Hi Thomas,
Thank you for your feedback.
You can currently use the 2nd Phone Number feature in Trend Micro Check to receive and reply to text messages — so receiving a security/2FA code would be no problem. We’ve updated the section at the end of the article to clarify this.
Best,
Trend MicroBy Trend Micro | December 27, 2022I tried the second phone and it kept freezing up so removed it. Im running a IOS 13 Apple Phone. I think this ap has a lot of debugging to do to make it proficient
By Cathleen Conrad | December 26, 2022Sounds very good, but let me know when it becomes functional for actual use. Thank you.
By Spencer | December 24, 2022What happens if I give this new number and they call me on it? Will I be able to answer and talk to them?
If not what happens to the call?By James Nelson | December 23, 2022Having been a Trend customer for a long time and subscriber of most of the suit when will this feature be available in Australia?9
By David Milne | December 23, 2022So, you get a telephone number you can use to sign up for services. But you cannot make or take phone calls, yet. Why not just make up a telephone number to give to people/companies that cannot call you?
By david brasel | December 23, 2022Will I be able to use this second phone number in Europe for texting? I plan on using GoogleFi-Flexible on vacations, using my main phone number.
By Kathy Guenther | December 23, 2022I think the second phone number is a get idea (same for a second email address)! However releasing and signing people up for a product that is not operational (yet), in my opinion is a mistake. If I give anyone (business or personal) a telephone number, I want them to being able to call/reach me on that new number! On my existing cell phone, I have the ability to block numbers, plus new software that is really good at picking out and identifying spam calls. It then gives me the option to block or continue to receive calls from that phone number. Works great for me! However, if/when your phone numbers become operational, I may then sign up. Thank you
By James E Turner | December 23, 2022This second number sounds interesting. Need to get one
By Ginger Coggins | December 23, 2022I’m a little underwhelmed. A second phone number that cannot receive or place calls seems useless to me. Your marketing people got ahead of your technology. Let me know when you have something to offer that works!
By John Frank | December 23, 2022My tele-phone is a digital landline. How do I make that virtual?
By Harry Halootka | December 23, 2022Excellent idea. Anxious to give it a try.
By Tyler Burns | December 23, 2022This was crap. All it did was install some supposed spam filter. Where is the free phone number you promised? I did not expect this kind of deception from Trend Micro.
By Till | December 23, 2022Was this article helpful… I’m not sure. I guess I’ll have to research it more when I have time.
By Ron Engel | December 23, 2022This seems very vague to me. I just don’t understand how this would be beneficial, given its current limitations.
By Marland Ellis | December 23, 2022
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