This way, the phone company knows you sent the text and charges you for it, but they won’t pass your number along to the recipient of the message.Īnother more straightforward approach to anonymous texts is apps and websites that use their SMS numbers to pass along your message. Your sending number gets stripped out with anonymous messaging after billing is triggered and sent to the destination. Including the sending number with the packet lets the sending carrier know who to bill for the service. This is by design so that individual packets (your text may take up one or many packets, depending on how long it is) can reach the destination number and get reassembled into a coherent message. Usually, SMS messages are packaged along with the sending number, the destination number, and the message itself.
How does anonymous texting work? First, let’s talk about how it works normally.
This article gives you several ways to send a text anonymously or semi-anonymously.
Being able to send an anonymous text is minor protection of your privacy, but it might be one you find essential one day.
