damn telegram is killing it lately. you can buy a random anon number to use telegram securely without a sim card. the number is tied to your TON crypto wallet.
https://fragment.com/number/random https://i.imgur.com/kex36ZG.png

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- no monthly payments to keep the number
- secured by your wallet
- anonymous
- prevents sim swapping
- adds a new account with extra 20 bot api tokens

unfortunately it only works with telegram. i would love a service like this for all social media accounts! got friends who were simswapped and had their lives ruined by teenagers who wanted to flip short instagram + twitter handles for profit. sending out nudes to their families from cached snapchat photos... 😔

it seems like they purchased the +888 area code from the  International Telecommunication Union. it was previously used for Telecommunications for Disaster Relief https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_for_Disaster_Relief

the country code was released in july 2022 so this is pretty recent. they must be their own carrier operating independently without any jurisdiction? 

what a rabbithole lol. i'm so intrigued in how all this works https://i.imgur.com/tNhSqRA.png

i believe this is how it works:

they are routing +888 toll numbers through their own infra to accept calls from the telegram 2FA service and then securely send you a login code after authenticating with your wallet. 

the numbers are NFTs on the TON blockchain.