I brought up burners a couple of years ago, like when we first started out. It is—and always will be—something essential in order to navigate through this hobby safely and without fear. The only reason I’m bringing this up again is because a friend got himself into a little situation where he thought he was going to die after getting sent some disturbing photos from a provider or pimp. If you’ve been in this hobby long enough, then you know exactly what I’m talking about.
If you’ve been in this hobby long enough and booked through some not-so-safe directories, then you know the pictures I’m hinting at—photos showing some very disturbing images of body parts and machetes being held. All of this is usually accompanied by a long text paragraph from the provider or pimp, trying to scare you into paying a certain amount or threatening to dox you. This even happened to me once or twice. I would’ve been scared, but I used my burner phone to contact providers. That, and I knew it was bullshit—which is why I told my friend to calm down and not worry. Now, what I didn’t know was that he used his personal phone to talk to providers that night. Yeah.
Anyway, I’m just going to go through exactly what I’ve done since day one of being a client. You can take it or leave it—I won’t be mad—but I want to have this out there so none of us are surprised if anything happens when using personal devices for the hobby.
Since I started, I’ve been using burner apps to talk with providers. Yes, providers dislike when we contact them through burner apps, but this is for my safety and theirs. Plus, providers use this more than we do. God knows how many times I’ve seen a provider open their phone in front of me, and a flood of different burner apps are right there with multiple notifications. My favorite burners are Burner, Hushed, and TextMe, but Burner is my favorite out of the three. I’ve been using it for over 10 years now, and since then, it’s gotten a lot more user-friendly. They have gotten a bit greedy with the types of burners you can buy from them nowadays, but the app is still worth it, IMO.
Now, the burner app is on my personal phone, but since getting a burner phone, I don’t use it as much. I’d advise getting a burner phone more than a burner app, but if you can’t get a burner phone, then the app is just as good. I don’t know how they do burner phones in other states, but in New York you can walk into a phone repair store, ask for any of the shitty phones they have on the wall with a SIM card, and you’re good to go. It should go without saying—it can be prepaid like back in the day. You’re paying for the minutes and not going month to month. I’ve never gone to the store to buy one myself, since I have friends who throw phones away or sell them often, so obviously, that phone isn’t with me for very long either.
Then there’s your burner email. There are literal sites and apps you can get burner emails from. I can’t speak too much on this since I’ve never used one of those exactly. I have multiple emails on Yahoo and Gmail that I use to see certain providers. To this day, I haven’t had the need to actually burn any of the emails I’ve been using for years. There’s never been a need to, as I’ve never really had a big problem. Still, if you’re interested in getting one, my suggestion is to just go to Google and type it in. You’ll get a number of burner email sites you can use.
If anyone has used one of these sites, I’d appreciate a tutorial. Something like this might seem very useful later on in the hobby.
Just to say—I'm only giving this advice to better help us as clients. This is not an invitation to use this information with malicious intent toward providers. I think we should be just as safe as they are, if not more. Using burners may be frowned upon on this side of the hobby, but you can’t deny there are some providers who themselves have bad intentions.
If you’ve been in this hobby long enough and booked through some not-so-safe directories, then you know the pictures I’m hinting at—photos showing some very disturbing images of body parts and machetes being held. All of this is usually accompanied by a long text paragraph from the provider or pimp, trying to scare you into paying a certain amount or threatening to dox you. This even happened to me once or twice. I would’ve been scared, but I used my burner phone to contact providers. That, and I knew it was bullshit—which is why I told my friend to calm down and not worry. Now, what I didn’t know was that he used his personal phone to talk to providers that night. Yeah.Anyway, I’m just going to go through exactly what I’ve done since day one of being a client. You can take it or leave it—I won’t be mad—but I want to have this out there so none of us are surprised if anything happens when using personal devices for the hobby.
Since I started, I’ve been using burner apps to talk with providers. Yes, providers dislike when we contact them through burner apps, but this is for my safety and theirs. Plus, providers use this more than we do. God knows how many times I’ve seen a provider open their phone in front of me, and a flood of different burner apps are right there with multiple notifications. My favorite burners are Burner, Hushed, and TextMe, but Burner is my favorite out of the three. I’ve been using it for over 10 years now, and since then, it’s gotten a lot more user-friendly. They have gotten a bit greedy with the types of burners you can buy from them nowadays, but the app is still worth it, IMO.
Now, the burner app is on my personal phone, but since getting a burner phone, I don’t use it as much. I’d advise getting a burner phone more than a burner app, but if you can’t get a burner phone, then the app is just as good. I don’t know how they do burner phones in other states, but in New York you can walk into a phone repair store, ask for any of the shitty phones they have on the wall with a SIM card, and you’re good to go. It should go without saying—it can be prepaid like back in the day. You’re paying for the minutes and not going month to month. I’ve never gone to the store to buy one myself, since I have friends who throw phones away or sell them often, so obviously, that phone isn’t with me for very long either.
Then there’s your burner email. There are literal sites and apps you can get burner emails from. I can’t speak too much on this since I’ve never used one of those exactly. I have multiple emails on Yahoo and Gmail that I use to see certain providers. To this day, I haven’t had the need to actually burn any of the emails I’ve been using for years. There’s never been a need to, as I’ve never really had a big problem. Still, if you’re interested in getting one, my suggestion is to just go to Google and type it in. You’ll get a number of burner email sites you can use.
If anyone has used one of these sites, I’d appreciate a tutorial. Something like this might seem very useful later on in the hobby.
Just to say—I'm only giving this advice to better help us as clients. This is not an invitation to use this information with malicious intent toward providers. I think we should be just as safe as they are, if not more. Using burners may be frowned upon on this side of the hobby, but you can’t deny there are some providers who themselves have bad intentions.
