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How to Be A Successful Hobbiest

How to Use a Burnphone Wisely
- buy a burn phone with cash.
- do not register/create an account with any pay-as-you go phones.
- always pay cash for more minutes.
- only turn on the burn phone when needed.
- turn on your phone approx 1-2 hours before appt.
- turn off your phone approx 1-2 hours after appt.
- do not store anything in contacts.
- delete your call history often.

- keep battery separate from the phone during down time.
- if you find an ATF, set up a Safe word for texting/emailing. Find a simple word you will both remember.


Other Useful Things-

- create a separate email account for the hobby. Never use your personal or work email for the hobby. Ever!
- handle as much of your communication by email using an on-line web-browser.
- be aware your ISP is required to keep logs of sites you visit. Use a anonymous connection. Search the web for them.
- be aware your computer keeps records of every website you visit. Programs like ccleaner, or evidence eliminator are useful to cover your tracks from your pc.
- if you are signed into facebook or other social media sites they may Slurp your contacts out of your computer. Yes "Slurp" is the technical term.
- programs like ccleaner, or evidence eliminator are useful to cover your tracks from your pc.
- if you have a car GPS and use it to map to a provider, CLEAR its history as well.


Credit for this information go to all the successful Mongers who contribute to our boards.

How to Be A Successful Hobbiest

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Originally Posted by jframe2

It all sounds good but, we all forget, go to fast, leave things out, it is the human thing to do! These are just personal opinions and subject to modification and criticism.

Every thing is traceable and most things can be partially "cleaned" but to really clean them takes "time" and effort. If a spouse/SO uncovers a second phone - there is no excuse - and they are more likely to catch you and do damage than LE for most hobbyist I have heard about on the coast. Not sure how dumb hobbyist are in the midwest yet!

Don't store obvious things on the phone, don't have a full record call statement - not companies don't do that any more any way. Most phones allow you to delete calls listing individually or all at once. Keeping it easy and simple is usually the easiest and safest in most cases from my observations. Simple phone and computer, no Iphonie, Ipaddie, texting, if you can keep up with the thowaway more power to you. It just takes too many steps and creates more chances of disaster in my view.