Text messages from Second Phone Number lines
Second Phone Number is an iOS app run by Hypewizz. It gives each user a second phone number of their own, so they can call and text without giving out their personal one. If you received a text from one of these numbers, this page explains where it came from and how to stop it.
Who sends them
A person. Every message is written in the app by the user the number belongs to, and goes to someone that user chose to contact. Hypewizz sends no messages of its own, sends no marketing, and keeps no subscriber list.
The rules every sender accepts
Before a user can send their first text, the app shows these rules and sends nothing until the user taps I agree. The acceptance is recorded with its date on our server.
Before your first text
- Text only people who gave you their number or asked you to contact them.
- Your first text to a new US number ends with “Sent with Second Phone Number. Msg & data rates may apply. Reply HELP for help, STOP to opt out.”
- Anyone you text can reply STOP to stop your messages, or HELP for help.
- Message frequency depends on your conversations. Msg & data rates may apply.
- Bulk, automated or unsolicited messages are not allowed. Accounts that send them are closed.
By tapping I agree, you accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
[ I agree ] [ Not now ]
How a conversation starts
You agree to receive texts from a user by doing one of two things:
- You text them first. Users put their second number on their own marketplace listings, rental ads, dating profiles, websites and business cards, with a line such as “Text me at (415) 555-0188”. When you text that number, the user replies to you from it.
- You give them your number. You hand your number to a user, or publish it on an ad or listing of your own, and ask to be contacted. Their first text to you then ends with:Sent with Second Phone Number. Msg & data rates may apply. Reply HELP for help, STOP to opt out.
The app’s Terms forbid bulk, automated or unsolicited messages, and accounts that send them are suspended or closed.
Message type, frequency and how to stop
- Message type
- Person-to-person conversation. Every text is written by an individual user of the app to someone they chose to contact. There is no marketing, no alerts and no automated messages.
- Message frequency
- Message frequency varies and depends only on the conversation. Nothing is sent on a schedule and nothing repeats.
- Cost
- Msg & data rates may apply, under your mobile plan.
- Stop
- Reply STOP at any time to opt out. That number will send you no further messages. Reply START to receive them again.
- Help
- Reply HELP for help, or write to [email protected].
- Delivery
- Carriers are not liable for any delayed or undelivered messages.
- Your number
- We do not sell or share your SMS opt-in data or personal information with third parties for marketing purposes. No mobile information is sold, rented, or shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent are not shared with any third parties.
More in the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.
In the app
Here someone asked a user, by phone, to send them the details of a rental. The user's first text ends with the line above; the reply comes back only to that user.
