I’m looking for a service, that replicates the functionality of email aliases, but with phone numbers.

I’d imagine having one number (99999) which I then could use with suffixes like 99999-1, 99999-2, … etc for services like WhatsApp, telegram, 2FA, etc… if such thing even exists.

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      4 months ago

      It’s also an attack on legitimate services that get inundated with spam/bots/abuse/etc. and one of many reasons why they’re not a widespread thing to begin with.

      There are a good number of resources for what you want but I don’t want to name names because they should stay hard to find on purpose IMO.

      There’s also many other e2ee chat apps that don’t require a phone number such as SimpleX, Briar, Tox, Session etc.

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    It depends a LOT on where you are. In the USA, Canada, and (I think) Mexico, such a thing is not possible, at least in any way that the services you mentioned will care.

    It might be possible in places where phone numbers don’t have a fixed length, like (again, I think) Germany.

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    Sounds like want a pbx with extensions, like astrix. You could program it twilio too

    But… sms verification systems won’t honor extensions