Blocking personal identifiers from certain calls

Question

I am doing research into a cold case crime from the 80's and now want to speak with people who may have some background insight into the perpetrator.
At the same time, I am reasonably concerned that this suspect might come looking for me, were an interviewee to go back to him with my identifying information (we knew each other in school).
So, is there a way to set up a different user name and number under my account, such that any of the people I speak to will think they're talking to "John Doe" at 000-555-1234? I understaand I can set up a unique number with Skype for a fee, but there's still the issue of being able to do research safely, under an alias.    Tks!

Answer 1

flynnmd wrote:
I am doing research into a cold case crime from the 80's and now want to speak with people who may have some background insight into the perpetrator.
At the same time, I am reasonably concerned that this suspect might come looking for me, were an interviewee to go back to him with my identifying information (we knew each other in school).
So, is there a way to set up a different user name and number under my account, such that any of the people I speak to will think they're talking to "John Doe" at 000-555-1234? I understaand I can set up a unique number with Skype for a fee, but there's still the issue of being able to do research safely, under an alias.    Tks!
You may want to set up another Skype account, a separate account, which is free.  Then you could purchase some Skype Credit for making phone calls.  Don't do anything with the new account for Caller ID, and Skype will either put a phone number that only traces back to Skype, or a series of digits that isn't a real phone number (for example, 000-012-3456).   Unless you need people to call you back, you don't need an Online Number that would allow your Skype account to receive calls from telephones. 
Of course, if you do this, please make sure to comply with Skype's Terms of Use when making those calls.  You don't want to be the recipient of harassment charges by trying to hide behind the use of Skype.  I'm not a lawyer, nor a Skype employee, but I would consider using a separate account from my "normal" Skype account if I had a need to do something like you mentioned. 
Patrick
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