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Another email question

10 years ago

Does anyone have a free email provider that does not require you to supply your cell phone number? My number is my number. I try not to give it out to anyone who doesn't need it. I need to switch to a different email provider.

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User
10 years ago
I've never given my phone number for any account. If I had to I would make one up!
Try the free aol for you email.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
10 years ago
It is not required you can by pass that stage in the set ups there is usually a very small option on that page that says skip or something like that. I have gmail, hotmail, yahoo, and others and have never ever given my phone number. It is just an optional way for them to contact you should they suspect your account has been hacked or someone other than you is trying to get into your account. I have set it up with an alternate email address so they can send me an email to another account to alert me.
If you did add your phone number you can go into the settings for the account and remove it, not advised to create a fake number you don't want them sending your info to a phone number that may belong to someone.
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You absolutely can do it and it is very simple it will not affect your other email at all you will just have to sign in to each one on their respective pages to access the email on that account. So go ahead and give it a try, you can use gmail, hotmail, yahoo, or any of the other free webmail. It is best if you do not import your contacts into that email account especially if you are going to use it for facebook so that it can not have access to all of your contacts to send out invites to. My advice is to find out all the settings for creating a good secure private facebook account and keep it updated so that you have no surprises. Things change frequently on facebook! Here you can find lots of good info on that subject. how to setup a secure facebook account - Google Search edit to say It is not a good idea to use the same user name and password for this new email account, you want it to have no connections to your others and be sure you use a good secure password that is not composed of real words but of random letters and numbers, possibly initials and birth dates or partial address numbers. Password Generator & Checker : How Secure is my Password This post was edited by ravencajun on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 18:20
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Elmer J Fudd
10 years ago
If you're signing up with one of the well-known, mainstream sites, I wouldn't worry about supplying your phone number. They're not going to badger you or disclose your personal information to a third party.

If anyone has ever had a different experience, I'd like to hear about it - I've never heard of anyone having such a problem.
OklaMoni
10 years ago
Gmail wants my phone number, but it doesn't get it from me. :)

If push comes to shove, I will tell them I don't have one.

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monica_pa Grieves
10 years ago
I've been asked, but I leave it blank.
LuAnn_in_PA
10 years ago
I have four different accounts - hotmail, yahoo, verizon and gmail.
NONE have my phone number.
angelaid
10 years ago
None of mine have my phone number either. A window pops up asking for it once in a while, but I just close it and move on.
Adella Bedella
Original Author
10 years ago
this is to create a new account. Yahoo says it is mandatory.
susanjf_gw
10 years ago
I ignore aol's request all the time...
golfergrrl
10 years ago
I have Yahoo like a zillion others and they don't have
my phone number.
pudgeder
10 years ago
I don't put my phone number out there either.
If they insist, make it up.
kathi_mdgd
10 years ago
I have gmail Yahoo outlook express and hot mail.None of them have my phone number nor will I give it if asked.I'll just say I don't have one.I. rarely ever even use it;just carry it for emergencies.
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kathi_mdgd
10 years ago
I have gmail Yahoo outlook express and hot mail.None of them have my phone number nor will I give it if asked.I'll just say I don't have one.I. rarely ever even use it;just carry it for emergencies.
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rob333 (zone 7b)
10 years ago
I make it up and I have an alternate email instead.

Businesses ask for it all the time. It's funny to see the look on their faces when I say 234-5678. Unlisted phone number seems to have slipped out of people's vernacular. For a long time, I'd say "unlisted" and cashier would barely bat an eye, then skip it. Say it and now and I may as well have said I have corn in my socks.

My favorite was the time I almost got into a fight with the cashier whom I had just told I was so glad to finally be able to afford what I was buying because it'd literally been years since I bought what was in my hands. Her big talking point, they wanted it to offer me sale prices. Really? For something I buy once every three or so years and wouldn't be needing again since I just bought one!? No thanks.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
10 years ago
Making up a phone number when creating your email account is not a good idea since they use that number to contact you should there be an attack on your account or if you lost your info and they needed to resend it to you, they would be sending it to a phone number you can not reach to get that info and it could be someones actual phone number and they would be the one that got your critical information. You can instead give an alternate email address that is real where they can send you that information.

I had that very thing happen recently with my gmail account, I accessed my account from an unknown, to them, device from a different state and it sent out an alert wanting to know if it was really me or if someone was trying to access my account. It was sent to my other email address that I provided, I was able to simply let them know it was me and it was a device I would be using. Had I provided my phone number they would have put out an automated call or text stating the same thing.
There is an option to just skip that page and go on. Not everyone has a cell phone. Not everyone has texting. I believe that you can put in the phone number and request a call not text, then when you go into your account settings you can go in and remove the phone number, if it was set for text that option is not available or that is how it has been in the past for gmail.

I set up a new yahoo account not long ago for one of my neighbors and was able to do so with out a cellphone because she does not have a cell phone. Yahoo has however been making so many changes and many are not for the better so it could have changed. So many people have left yahoo due to some of these changes.

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