Send an anonymous text to a Finnish mobile

What a text to Finland costs

One SMS segment to a Finnish mobile costs 1 credit ($0.20). A segment holds 160 characters of plain text, and texts to Finland start with “GHOST:”, which counts toward that. ä, ö and å, capitals included, are all in the basic SMS alphabet, so Finnish and Swedish texts cost nothing extra for them. The € sign is too, but it counts as two characters. The quotation mark ” used in Finnish, the curly apostrophe ’ and emoji are not: any one of them switches the whole text to 70-character segments.

Counts include the “GHOST: ” prefix these texts start with. Rates checked October 22, 2026. Rates for every country

How to type a Finnish mobile number

1. Open Ghost in your browser or the Android app.
2. Choose Finland (+358) in the country list and type the mobile number.
3. Write your text, check the credits shown under it, and send.

Choose Finland, then type the number without the 0 at the front, so 040 … becomes 40 … and 050 … becomes 50 …. Finnish mobiles start with 04 or 050. They are not all the same length, so type every digit you were given. Numbers starting 049 are for machine-to-machine use, not phones.

What the person in Finland sees

• The text arrives as an ordinary SMS from a Ghost mobile number. Your own number is not shown anywhere in it.
• It starts with “GHOST:”, so they can tell it came through Ghost. Nothing in it says who you are unless you write it.
• Finland tightened its rules on scam texts in 2026. Since 4 May, operators block texts arriving from abroad that show a Finnish +358 number or a sender name, and texts from business messaging services whose sender cannot be verified are shown as “Tuntematon” (Unknown) or blocked. From 2 November 2026 such unverified texts with a sender name can be blocked or relabelled “Roskaposti” (Spam).
• Traficom, the Finnish regulator, says these changes do not affect messages between ordinary mobile subscriptions. A Ghost text comes from a mobile number rather than a sender name, but the networks have the last word: if delivery matters, send a test to a phone you control in Finland first.
• Replying from their messages app does not reach you. If you want an answer, switch on a Reply Link: they open it in a browser and send you one reply, still without seeing your number.

Writing a text for Finland

Finnish and Swedish are Finland’s two national languages, and both use ä, ö and å, which all fit the basic SMS alphabet. Punctuation is what can make a text cost more.

When people in Finland keep their number private

Finnish law on anonymous texts

Sending a text without showing your number is not an offence in itself. What you send matters: repeatedly messaging someone to harass them is a breach of the peace of communications (viestintärauhan rikkominen) under chapter 24, section 1 a of the Criminal Code, threats are covered by chapter 25, section 7 (laiton uhkaus) and stalking by chapter 25, section 7 a (vainoaminen). Defamation is in chapter 24, section 9, and sending a sexual message or image to someone can be sexual harassment under chapter 20, section 6. Marketing texts to individuals need prior consent under section 200 of the Act on Electronic Communications Services.

Got a text you did not want?

If a text looks like a scam, report it to the National Cyber Security Centre Finland (NCSC-FI, part of Traficom) with its online form. If you paid money or gave your bank details, contact your bank at once and file a police report, which you can do online. To stop texts sent through Ghost, add your number on the stop page.

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