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Advertorial (CALLSafe)
Keep your mobile number safe
Give out your contact number safely without any risk of receiving spam or nuisance calls.
Here’s how to stay in touch with new friends or total strangers without losing your privacy.
Do you feel insecure giving out your personal mobile phone numbers to people you don’t really know?
Such as a new friend on a social network site who wants to chat on the phone.
Or customers who are buying your products on online auction sites.
Circulating your mobile number freely to everyone, can indeed be risky.
And it is perfectly logical to think so!
After all, you run the risk of getting spammed and harassed with unwanted, unsolicited calls or SMS advertisements.
And who wants to answer midnight calls from strangers?
And yet, there are times, such as at a networking function or parties, when you may find it necessary to give strangers your number.
(And that new friend you met online? He or she could be someone you wish to date!)
So, how can you stay in touch with these new contacts, and yet keep your mobile number safe from potential harassment from the likes of nuisance callers or telemarketers?
SingTel CALLSafe
There is a simple yet effective solution: SingTel Mobile’s CALLSafe service.
Think of CALLSafe as a value-added service.
It assigns a random virtual number whenever you call someone’s Singapore mobile or fixed line number using a prefix (*2255 or *CALL).
(The same prefix is used when you send SMS messages too.)
So, your recipient will see that virtual number — and not your real mobile number.
Only that recipient, whether he is a new business contact or an online customer, will be able to contact you with the same virtual number.
So the good news is no unauthorised third parties can call you with that virtual number.
What’s more, you can even remove, block or unblock recipients from the CALLSafe service. Thus, with the power to block undesirable contacts from reaching you via the virtual number, your privacy is secured.
SingTel CALLSafe Plus
There will also be times when you will give your mobile number freely, such as at a speed dating session!
For such occasions, CALLSafe Plus goes one step better: A dedicated virtual number you can use to call anyone, anonymously.
This is great news for online entrepreneurs who value privacy: you can freely advertise or give out your virtual mobile number everywhere and anywhere you need to.
Casual contacts, potential and associates who are not that close to you — including that cute guy or girl from a social networking site — can still conveniently use that virtual number to contact you.
Rest assured they will not learn your true number unless you want them to.
Remember: These people will only see the dedicated virtual number that CALLSafe Plus assigns to you.
For worry-free calling, just use the prefix (*7355 or *SELL) before dialling anyone’s Singapore mobile or fixed line number, eg. *735591234567.
In short, CALLSafe Plus lets you can stay contactable all the time, while protecting your real mobile number.
With CALLSafe and CALLSafe Plus, you enjoy the peace-of-mind of not revealing your actual mobile phone number to all and sundry — and yet stay in constant contact with new friends and customers whenever necessary.
So, to stay safe from spam SMS messages or nuisance calls to your mobile number, just CALLSafe with SingTel.
After all, it’s better to be safe than sorry!
• For CALLSafe (just $5.35 monthly!), dial *2255 now. First time sign-ups get 7 days free.
• For CALLSafe Plus (just $16.05 monthly), dial *7355 now. |
- SingTel
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