

More recently, the giant credit rating company Equifax revealed they had been hacked, exposing nearly 150 million people’s personal information.

It’s not just you either, it’s even big companies that help make life what it is-Android and Apple have both dealt with serious bugs in the past and some compromised security measures. Your personal information is under constant threat from hackers, scammers, and pranksters, and everything you put out into the world risks being used the wrong way by the wrong kind of people. We live in a world that’s connected to the internet in almost every facet, and in that world, information is king. You are exposed and vulnerable to numerous threats Top problems of using a personal personal phone for work and feasible solutions to them 1. Regardless, all 3 options are safer and just plain better (to varying degrees) than using your personal number. You know the first two options, but if you don’t know much about virtual phone numbers, here’s a crash course.


Do you and your friend have the same cell phone service carrier? I have found that I have trouble connecting with and being connected to my husband's Sprint smart phone and my AT&T GoPhone.ĭid you call your friend when there were major storms in the area? Note: I have found poor cell phone service when there is major cloud cover and a bad rain/thunder storm in progress, when the call doesn't go through, but I am connected to voice mail. It seems your problem has happened more than once. When I tried telephoning them from my home about 20 miles away, I got that message. It was when there was a major power outage and phone line damage due to a tornado where my parents lived. I have only experienced the "that number cannot be reached" years and years ago, before cell phones, with Ameritech (name of phone company prior to being absorbed back into AT&T) and land lines.
