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YahooPrivacy is important to everyone and there are numerous debates and arguments floating around as to how much privacy is a legitimate right of every individual, what entails breach of privacy and how one can protect oneself from privacy infringements. With instant connectivity and the rapid technological advances made in collecting and storing data, it is getting quite difficult to maintain privacy in these times. We're talking here about how you can mask your telephone number and make an untraceable phone call in the steps listed below.
Masking telephone numbers. In these days of caller ID and other means of tracing phone calls, there is no foolproof method of making an untraceable call available yet. What you can do instead is mask your telephone number from the person whose number you're dialing, so that your call shows up as an unidentified number. You can do this by dialing *67 on the keypad before dialing the telephone number you want. This will prevent your telephone number from appearing on the receiver's caller ID. But, the call can still be traced by the recipient if they use Automatic Number Notification (ANI). This is a service used by 911 and numbers beginning with the 800 and 900 series. Another way of finding out where an untraceable phone call came from is to press *57 after the line is disconnected.
Using soft-phones. Another way to avoid tracing of your phone call by either ANI or by *57 is to make the call from a soft-phone. A soft-phone is a piece of software, which uses the Internet to dial out numbers. Use a proxy server along with the soft-phone program to further lessen the chances of having your call traced. The downside of this method is that, calls can be traced through the service of subpoenas to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the latter is bound by law to release IP addresses as required.
Use payphones or pre-paid cell phones. You can expect some amount of anonymity if you use public payphones or even pre-paid cell phones which can be discarded once you've made a few calls. Any disadvantages? Most payphones these days are under camera security, cell phone locations can be traced by triangulation methods used by the mobile service providers.
Using caller ID spoofing services. Check out services such as SpoofCard, which provide calling cards to make anonymous, untraceable calls. These services are much in demand as they provide legal means of securing privacy in communications and are mostly used by enforcement authorities, local and federal government services, businesses, etc. This calling card can be used by anyone with any kind of telephone to make untraceable calls, by displaying numbers that are different from the actual telephone number and hence, guaranteeing anonymity.
With help from these guidelines listed above, you should be in a relatively secure position to maintain your privacy when making telephone calls. However, it is important that the purposes for which you want to make such calls are legitimate and legal!! Otherwise, all bets are off!!
