What are your opinions about Cloaked.app new phone number aliases service?

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I don’t think he was dishonest in his review, remember his whole branding and clientelle require trust to work, if he makes a dishonest review of something thats very damaging to him. However, the review may be incomplete, he ONLY went over masked payments and VoIP in the article. He did not go over their other offerings at all, he was asked by his community to look at it and did.

I myself am slightly questioning of the service and thus don’t use it. I just don’t have any authoratative reasons beyond VC bad, maybe questionable activities but not sure there so, post a link to a trusted source going over it.

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Interesting. Thats 2 red flags more.

Thats true, although Ive seen people doing all kind of shady things for money. Im NOT saying this is the case here though.

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I believe it’s US only, and the app is downloadable in my region. If you’re in the US though then that is interesting.

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Where are you located if I may ask?

Thats whole point now: Im physically not in the US right now, but I have my region set to be US because this is where I live (US, TX to be precise)

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I’m in Texas and my old iphone is able to download the app.

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I’ve done a good job erasing myself from all databases that show up on a Google search, and when you look up my family members I am a ghost.

On Cloaked’s lookup it has every phone, address, family member, roommate, landlord, etc from my entire life. That is disheartening. For the OSINT people and stalkers it is a great tool.

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Well, just found another red flag cloaked.com loads but cloaked.app is blocked by 1hosts xtra.

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Soo…I just tried my phone number on cloaked and they have my social, DOB, address, family, everything. I’ve been on DeleteMe for just under 2 months and nowhere was my social found…this is concerning.

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1hosts has a lot of false postives usually. Take that with a grain of salt.

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@Rasta thats what I was (am) talking about. Shady. The more you dig, the more shady it gets…

May be, may be not. Even if, they (cloaked) had to get that data somehow…

@Rasta rightfuly so. Security taken seriously at 1hosts. Well done.

@sierra6 not only for them.

  • marketers,
  • all sorts of data miners/harvesters/traders
  • forensics,
  • bullies
  • etc.

List goes on indefinitely…

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On discord, Arjun (founder) mentions lexisnexis could be the potential data broker that provided info, it mostly looks like a credit DB.

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@securitybrahh what do you mean by this?

How can we be sure this is not made up by him just to put blame away from his company?

Edit: Just quick scan of LexisNexis web and my gut-feeling is that what Arjun said was just made up. LexisNexis is old, well-established, reputable company that would not risk breaking the law basically.

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Then unless they have a backroom deal with lexisnexis that they aren’t talking about, they’re falsely advertising because they can’t get you taken off of lexisnexis unless you meet specific criteria. Threats against you, LE, and proven Identity theft are essentially the only way that company will remove your data.

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Yet again, Lexis is too reputable company to do things like this. They will loose basicaly everything if caught doing so.

of course they do. Is that not punishable by any chance?

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The Database entries that are being exposed feels like something you would give for credit / card checks etc.

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You are right, it’s a credit reporting bureau (TransUnion). A Reddit user reverse engineered their mobile apps and found they are using TransUnion’s TLOxp private “invite only” API as the back-end for their free scan.

Their data removal feature has stuck at 120 data broker coverage for quite a while. This plus using TransUnion API for scans instead of using their own stack means they are probably using a third-party provider for data broker removals. Their privacy policy only lists PureVPN as the backend for the VPN feature.