Services that provide a temporary number for receiving SMS online appeared after many social networks, trading platforms and other Internet resources switched from user identification, during registration, through an email address to identification through a sent code to a phone number, and often a code to phone number and confirmation via email.
For whom are there services that provide virtual numbers online?
The entire audience of users of resources providing services for receiving SMS to telephone numbers online can be divided into groups:
The first group is the most numerous and brings the most income to SMS activation services - these are people who use all kinds of programs for cheating (likes, subscribers, votes, etc.). To carry out their activities, these people need thousands of bots, for the creation of which, accordingly, thousands of phone numbers are needed. For ourselves, we will call such clients of SMS activators "wholesalers".
We will continue to separate users of SMS activators
The second group, let's call it "cunning", are lovers of exploiting vulnerabilities. Let me give you an example: a few years ago, there were especially cunning people who understood the sequence of card numbers of the Perekrestok grocery chain and, by sorting through the cards, identifying which ones have bonus points, tied up to five cards to a new account (using numbers from SMS activation services) and in Subsequently, they could safely pay for products in stores with these bonus points. There is something similar today, only now with the Pyaterochka chain, because it and Perekrestok belong to the same retail chain x5 retail group and decided to use the same system for bonuses.
This group also includes those who follow discounts and bonuses on their first purchase. And again, let's look at an example: in the well-known fast food chain KFC there was a promotion, when you register in their application or in your personal account on the site that you pull up to the application on your phone, you are given a 30% discount on the purchase of a bucket with wings. And with each new campaign for the wings, while the action was in effect, representatives of our βcunningβ group registered a new account using a temporary number to receive SMS from one of the SMS activation services, paying no more than 5 rubles for it, and receiving a benefit of 30% of order at KFC.
Last user group sms activators
The third group is the smallest. These are what we will call "private traders". Who acquires temporary numbers for receiving SMS up to 10pcs. And again, Iβd better give an example: you are reselling cars and posting ads on the avito marketplace. The first ad will be free for you, the second for a nominal fee, the more often and more you post car sales ads, the higher the avito price tag will be for you, up to 1000 rubles for a new ad. Avito also has a similar price increase system for posting an ad for the sale of spare parts and other things. Or you are a homegrown housewife and want to check your husband by registering a page on Intagram or vkontakte and write to him from this new page, where there is a photo of an attractive female.
Pros and cons of the most popular SMS activation services
And now let's look at the largest and most popular services that provide services for renting temporary phone numbers for receiving SMS online:
1) Service for over three years. If you believe their statistics on the site, then they register from 200 to 400 people a day and purchase at least one number from 3000 to 5000 users. The prices of this resource are average. There are above, there are also below, I will attach a detailed table with prices for the resources in question after the review. On the negative side, with less than 6% of successful use of numbers, you get a ban and you will only know this after receiving a ban and contacting those. support. That is, if you try to register an account on VKontakte, and an account has already been registered to the number provided to you, then you can refuse it, but if you do this about 20 times in a row, you will get a ban. And for how long it is completely unclear, they have their own algorithm, nowhere on the site the conditions for blocking are specified.
2) Outwardly and in prices, the resource discussed above is very similar, from the negative they also have something like bans, but the loyalty system or the so-called βkarmaβ is called.
And the main disadvantage of this service, unlike all the others described in this article, simsms.org give a number for 20 minutes, for which you will receive only one SMS from the service you have chosen. All the other services in our article, providing a number for 20 minutes, Allow you to receive an unlimited number of SMS from your chosen resource. This is very useful when registering, for example, to start a Yandex wallet, you must first register Yandex mail (receiving 1 SMS with a code) and only then register the wallet itself (1 more SMS), and you will pay for 1 resource.
3) relatively young resource, perhaps with the lowest prices. Unfortunately, they are often attacked and the site is unavailable. And recently there are no available numbers for the most popular services and "other".
4) one of the oldest SMS activation services, but has deteriorated over the years. They do not develop at all, the site has remained practically unchanged since 2015. A very inconvenient personal account. They do not display how much of which service is currently available. And also a very high price tag (you can see it in the table after the description of the services).
5) they are a βwhiteβ service, they have open LLC Onlinesim, where there are 6 people on the staff, and even on free resources you can find information on them, including the general director. This, of course, favors them, but let's be honest - such services cannot be official a priori. For the user, the most unpleasant surprise will be identification through a passport photo with a piece of paper attached to it, on which there will be your id from their website and registration page.
Identification on their website is mandatory when using Russian numbers; identification is not required to use foreign numbers. What will they do with passport data? can get microcredit?
Prices
As promised, below is a comparison of the prices of the considered services. Current as of 31.01.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX.
Summing-up
Your page on a social network can be blocked after a week or a month, and not a single SMS activation service will ever provide you with the number you took a week or even a day ago. Accordingly, you will lose the page on the social network. It is worth using the services described above only with the knowledge that a registered account can be blocked for you at any time and you will lose access to it forever, so do not use accounts registered in this way on an ongoing basis. If you need a one-day account, then go ahead. Most importantly, do not forget about the risk of losing your account, none of these services will help you get it back.
Source: habr.com