Fake phone number. Possible problems when using free SMS activation services

When creating a new account on the VKontakte social network, the user must indicate his mobile phone number. Until 2012, it was enough to enter only an e-mail address, but to combat fraudsters, the administration tightened the registration rules. This restriction is not suitable for everyone, so let's figure it out how without a phone number. Do not forget that VK rules do not approve the creation of duplicate accounts, so use our instructions only if you do not want to declassify your mobile phone number.

In order not to indicate your phone number, it is possible to create a virtual number for receiving sms. Such a number is issued on special online services, it is to him that a message comes with an account activation code. On the site you will see the text of the received SMS and enter the code in the VK registration form.

Here are some online resources that offer a temporary phone number for receiving SMS. You can use it to register on a social network or any other service. Before you create a VK page without a phone, select a suitable virtual online resource.

English-language, but simple and straightforward interface: https://textfree.us. Works for free on the site, also implemented as mobile applications for iOS and Android. Follow the link and register - write your username, password, email address or log in through your Facebook or Google+ account. You will see a list of free digital sequences for receiving SMS, choose any of them. There is a selection of the most suitable number for your region according to the postal code, but it is designed only for 5-digit indexes, Russian 6-digit ones are not suitable.

SMSka

Russian-language service where you can find a virtual phone number: https://smska.us/. Several Russian numbers are publicly available; for a small fee, a personal temporary phone number is issued, which is guaranteed not to have been used in social networks.

Simple free service, does not require registration http://receive-sms-online.com/. You immediately see a list of available phones, among which there are Russian and Ukrainian ones. Click on any of them - a page with the latest messages received on it will open. New SMS appears in the top line of the table, reload the page to update the list.

Service similar to the previous one: http://receivefreesms.com/. It offers a number of free temporary mobile phones for registration of an account on VKontakte and other services, in its list there are phones from different countries of the world.

Registration in VKontakte with a temporary phone number

So, you have found a service for receiving sms. We will tell you how to register in VK without a phone number. On the home page of vk.com, click "Register", enter your first and last name.

When you are prompted to indicate a mobile phone, enter the selected number. Correctly indicate the country according to the initial numbers, if it is "+1", put the USA. Click on "Get Code". You just need to go to the website of the online service, read the SMS and enter the code from it into VK.

If instead of the code you received a message that this number is already in use, select another sequence or resource. Is it possible to constantly indicate the same temporary number everywhere? No, free virtual numbers are constantly changing due to being banned on various sites.

Registration in VK without specifying your phone number is a simple procedure. The fastest is to go to ReceiveFreeSMS or similar resources. If the sequences from them do not work, try Pinger or SMSka, where a registered user can get a personal phone for a small fee.

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Most web services and social networks require the user to provide a phone number when registering. From the point of view of ensuring the protection of personal data, this is a reasonable step: so that access to the account is carried out using double authentication (a password and a special code that comes in the form of SMS). However, there are situations when this becomes a problem. For example, if a person needs to create another page on the same resource, but the phone can only be used once.

It is for such purposes that this service is used on the Internet - to process phone calls and messages forwarded to other subscribers (as a rule, not related to equipment, and the connection takes place remotely).

Who uses the offer

This service is used not only by individuals (for registration in social networks), but also by business representatives.

For example, an organization purchases a telephone with a Moscow code and a service for forwarding messages to another city in order to form the opinion among consumers that the office is located in the capital, regardless of where in the country it is actually located.

For non-commercial purposes, they are mainly used to register on web resources: VKontakte, Facebook, etc. This is convenient, since having received a virtual number, you do not need to indicate a personal one, because in the future it is unlikely to be needed anymore. Regular users can use it for free or for a nominal price. The conditionally established cost is observed here due to the absence of a market value and the impossibility of determining it: on one site it can be sold for 15 rubles, on another - for 100. For a business, you will have to pay for creating a virtual phone number. They are used for the following purposes:

1. Receiving messages (usually this is a code that must be entered on the site during registration).
2. Call forwarding to other phones connected with the subscriber's equipment (mobile, landline).
3. Creation of bulk SMS-mailings for a previously prepared client base.
4. Record voice messages and provide information to users in the form of a voice menu.

Ease of use lies in the fact that the user protects himself from further receiving spam, and the company protects the contact from being blacklisted after mass mailing.

Benefits of creating a virtual phone number

First of all, the services of telephone service companies make it possible to turn on and operate a subscriber without having to buy a stationary device or a SIM card. All you need to do is go to the site, choose the best option and pay. At the same time, the connection to the equipment occurs remotely, the subscriber does not bind anything to himself, but uses the multichannel service remotely, regardless of location.

There are many different sites on the Internet that provide services for receiving SMS. This feature is usually free or requires little money. The most common web services for creating disposable virtual numbers are: Sellaite, Receive-SMS-Online, FreeOnlinePhone, etc. Despite the fact that they are English-speaking sites, they are available for many countries of the world, including Russia. The principle of their work is quite simple: a person visits a web resource, chooses a free one, exploits it at his own discretion. In this case, the user himself cannot contact him - the service issues a code received by SMS. As a rule, for individuals, this service is relevant as an easy and effective way to create many accounts on social networks. Among the main advantages of this method are:

1. Simplicity and ease of connection.
2. The minimum tariff for using the service in general, and outgoing calls in particular.
3. Multichannel, with the possibility of organizing dozens of different lines, which are workplaces for operators, whose main task is to receive calls from customers and provide advice.
4. No need to purchase stationary equipment - the whole process of connection and operation takes place on the Internet on the server of the seller company.
5. Users usually trust organizations where the call center starts with 800 code. This means that, firstly, the company is serious, and secondly, the subscriber fee will not be charged from the caller.

It should be noted that the successful implementation of the service is possible only with constant access to the Internet. At the same time, you can work both from personal computers and laptops, and from smartphones. To do this, you need to install additional software or applications. As a result, the user in a short time can create his virtual number and the whole telephone infrastructure, having only access to the Internet and computer equipment. You can customize the line and use it at your own discretion - there are no restrictions here.

How to get a virtual phone number

As already noted, to create it, the user only needs access to the Internet. Next, you should choose a site that provides IP telephony services. It doesn't have to be a large company. For ordinary users who want to register in some social network, a simple web service will suffice. One of such sites is the SMS-REG activation service. Here is a huge database that has never been used before. The rental price here is quite low - from 10 to 12 rubles for creating a page on a social network. A more expensive service is operation for a certain period of time: three hours will cost a person an average of 50 rubles. OnlineSim is a similar Russian-language site.

It is worth noting that there are more economical options on the Internet. For example, sites with free foreign numbers. Here, absolutely nothing is required from the user, except for registration with the indication of an email address, nickname and coming up with a password. Among them are Sellaite and Receive SMS Online. These are the simplest services for receiving messages. The downside here is the fact that all subscribers have already been used many times before. To use better IP telephony services, you need to use the services of large companies.

1. Twilio platform. This is an international service that provides services on a paid basis, although some sections are accessible only after depositing a small amount of money. For new users, there is a trial period, during which you can create a virtual phone number of any country, including Russia, absolutely free of charge, and then receive messages without hindrance. Despite the fact that Twilio is an English-language resource, it has an intuitive interface and a simple registration form.
2. TextNow. This is another English-language service where you can get one phone for use for free. All you need to do for this is to go through a simple registration on the site, and then download the official application to your smartphone with the Android or iOS operating system. You cannot select numbers here - they are generated automatically.

It is necessary to choose a site for connecting a virtual number based on the tasks: if you just need to register an account on a web resource, you can use free offers, and to create a working telephone infrastructure, you should use paid, but reliable services.

Today, more and more Internet services require a mobile phone number when registering. From a security point of view, this is reasonable: SMS confirmation significantly reduces the risk of account hacking. But there are situations when a phone request only gets in the way. For example, when creating another profile on the same resource.

We usually only have one or two SIM cards. If their numbers are already present in the site database, there are problems with registration. What do we do in such cases? Or we refuse the idea, or we beg our relatives and friends to let us use their phones. However, there is an easier way - a virtual phone number for rent.

Purpose, possibilities and advantages of virtual numbers

We figured out one of the types of virtual numbers - they are used to receive SMS when registering in social networks, for example, "VK" and "Odnoklassniki", as well as on other web sites. The rental period ranges from 5 minutes to a day. The cost of the service is symbolic. And in some places it is generally free.

Another type of virtual phone is used in business. In this area, they are used not for registration on websites, but for their main purpose - for receiving and making calls, as well as for SMS / MMS and fax messages. Such numbers are rented (as a rule, long-term) by telecom operators in different regions. The essence of the service is as follows: a subscriber (company) is located in one region, and works in another. In order not to splurge on charges for roaming and long-distance communication, the company buys (leases) a virtual number in the region of operation, all data from which is forwarded to the customer's real phones or PBX. The number, as a rule, is provided as an ordinary one - a municipal one. Less often - mobile.

Advantages of virtual telephony:

• For users of VKontakte and other social networks - the ability to create an unlimited number of accounts.
• For those who register on the websites of shops and trading platforms - an opportunity to avoid telephone spam and protect themselves from fraudsters.
• For subscribers of paid gaming, music and other web services with a free trial period, where the user is identified by a phone number: the ability to extend the free period for an unlimited time.
• For business - savings on communication services. Simplification of communications with the enterprise for customers and partners in remote regions (this is no less important than personal savings, because few people want to pay for calls to your company at intercity rates).

The best services for receiving SMS with Russian numbers

OnlineSim.ru

OnlineSim.ru is a classic paid, but inexpensive service for registrations on Internet sites. Provides the following features:

• Choose a number from an unlimited database. This ensures that no one has used it before you. The base is available 24 hours a day
• Receive SMS to the number you previously used.
• Forward incoming to personal mobile phone.

After registration (here it is required) you will have to fund your account. Currently (December 2016) 6 top-up options are available:

• PayPal.
• Yandex money.
• Bank cards.
• Qiwi.
• Bitcoin.
• Z-payment (supports many different payment methods).

Tariffs, as you can see from the screenshot, are not high. The most expensive one is 17 rubles for the immediate provision of a number for registration on VKontakte, which receives SMS within 20 minutes. If you want to save a little, you can get a used number for 12 rubles, (but not used on this service), which sometimes takes a long time to wait.

The cheapest is to rent a phone to receive SMS from Mamba, Yandex, WhatsApp, Telegram, SEOsprint, Friend Vokrug, Steam, Uber and OpenI. Immediately - 3 rubles, used with a delay - 2 rubles.

OnlineSim offers a choice of MTS, Beeline and Megafon numbers. Optionally, you can set up a filter so that you are shown the phones of only one operator. Here you can also "filter" the region (Moscow, St. Petersburg), the possibility of forwarding SMS to a personal mobile phone and the service option (message repeat and lease extension).

An account statement (with transactions, expense amounts and dates) is available on the site for ordering. And if difficulties or problems arise, you can always contact technical support.

In many ways, the hike is similar to the previous service. It also contains a huge database of free, never used phones for registration on various resources. Prices are on average the same. So, renting a number to create a VK account costs 8-10 rubles. Buy a ready-made account - 12 rubles.

Renting a number for receiving SMS for a certain period of time will cost a little more: 3 hours - from 40 rubles, a day - from 60 rubles.

The list of Internet resources that SMS-reg.com works with is no longer than that of Online Sim, but here you can use the phones of several countries. Available: Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Bulgaria.

The main advantages of paid services for receiving SMS are time saving. For a not too ruinous sum (2-15 rubles), you will be provided with the phone number of your own country (many domestic resources simply do not accept American and European numbers), which is guaranteed not to be used by anyone. And the content of the SMS that you receive will not be read by anyone but you.

OnlineSim and SMS-reg are far from the only sites that provide SMS receiving services. There are those that do not require anything from the user at all. Even registration, not to mention payment. Of course, you will not be able to register on VKontakte with their help, but for some "omnivorous" Internet sites, they are quite suitable.

Free services with foreign numbers

- one of the easiest to use SMS receiving services. Works for free and without creating an account. The user just needs to take one of the free numbers for 5 minutes and indicate it when registering on the desired site. The currently available number is displayed in the second field from the top. A reply message (SMS confirmation) will appear right here on the Sellaite page.

The advantages of the service are simplicity and availability. Disadvantages - all provided phones are reused, so most of the Internet sites do not accept them. There are no Russian numbers. Ukrainian and Belarusian too. In addition, the text of the message addressed to you will be visible to everyone who is currently on the site.

Receive SMS Online

The Receive-sms-online.com service works in a similar way - just go in and take any of the eight available phones. Unlike Sellaite, Russian and Ukrainian numbers are often available here.

Next to each phone is the number of times it has been used in the last 24 hours. The less, the more likely it is that the number will be accepted by the site on which you are registering.

Reply SMS with confirmation codes come here. To read, just click on the number.

Twilio.com

Twilio.com, in comparison with the two previous ones, is a much more civilized service - one of the most popular web resources of this kind in the English-speaking space. Its assets include an extensive database of telephones from different countries of the world. However, there are very few Russians, Ukrainian and Belarusian among them.

Twilio is free to use, but you need to create an account. When registering, it is important to indicate your real email address and your mobile phone number, otherwise you will not receive confirmation and will not be able to enter your personal account.

To get your first free Twilio number, click Get Started.

The next window will display the virtual phone provided to you. Despite the fact that the service tries to select numbers of their countries for users, not everyone gets Russian phones. For example, we got the American one.

If you want to change the number, click "Choose this Number".

Click “Done” to close the window.

If the new option did not suit you either by clicking “Buy a phone number”, you can buy another one. In this case, you will be given a choice of phones from 20-30 countries. You may be lucky: Russia will be among them.

To manage Twilio numbers, click the "Manage phone numbers" button.

The information you are interested in is in the "Message Log" section.

Proovl.com (formerly Smscan.com)

- the last actually working virtual telephony service in today's collection. Provides real mobile numbers for short-term use. The cost of services is from € 0 (for one SMS) to € 5 (for daily use).

Test SMS reception on Proovl does not require registration (the received message is displayed on the website). If this is not enough, after creating an account and replenishing the account, the user is given a choice of a dozen phones in Europe and the USA.

The site has 2 tariff plans: standard and premium. One-time reception of messages on both tariffs does not cost anything. Connecting a permanent virtual number - € 5-10. Subscription fee per day - € 5. On the standard tariff, no more than 2 numbers can be connected at the same time, on the premium one - without restrictions.

Proovl virtual phones can be used for registration on any Internet sites (except for those that send data only to Russian numbers) and, unlike a number of similar ones, accept long messages. Information is stored in the user's personal account for up to 150 days.

The popular social network Vkontakte several years ago tightened the rules for registering accounts. Now, in order to create a page, the user must indicate a valid mobile phone number, which will subsequently receive a message with a code.

Only after entering the received digital value will it be possible to create an account and use it. However, there are a number of effective ways to how to register in a contact without a phone number... I will tell you more about them in this article.

1. How to register in VK without a phone

Vkontakte registration is carried out according to a certain template, and the main stage is binding to the user's mobile phone number. It is not possible to skip it, because otherwise it will not be possible to start the page.

But the system can be deceived, and for this there are at least two ways:

• using a virtual number;
• indication of the current Facebook page.

Each of the above registration options provides for a specific algorithm of actions, after completing which you can count on the quick creation of an account and access to all the options of the Vkontakte social network.

1.1. Registration in VK using a virtual number

You can go through the registration procedure in social networks using a virtual number for receiving SMS. To do this, it is best to use the recognized international service Pinger (the official website is https://wp.pinger.com).

Step-by-step registration in the service looks like this:

1. We go to the site, select in the upper right corner of the screen options "TEXTFREE".

3. We go through a simple registration procedure in the service, after pressing the virtual button "Sign Up". In the window that appears, indicate the username, password, age, gender, email address, highlighted letter abbreviation ("captcha").

4. If all the previous steps were performed correctly, click on the arrow in the lower right corner of the screen, after which a window with several phone numbers will appear. We choose the number we like.

5. After pressing the arrow, a window will appear in which the received messages will be displayed.

It is always possible to view the selected virtual phone number in the “Options” tab. When registering in VK using the considered method, the USA should be entered in the country selection field (the international code of this country starts with "+1"). Next, we enter a virtual mobile number and receive a code for it with confirmation of registration. Subsequently, you may need a Pinger account if you lose your password, so you shouldn't lose access to the service.

At the moment, creating an account using the virtual number service is considered one of the fastest and most effective methods of registering on social networks. Its main advantage over other options is anonymity, because a virtual phone number cannot be tracked or proven to be used by a specific person. At the same time, the main disadvantage of this method is the impossibility of restoring access to the page in case of loss of access to Pinger.

IMPORTANT! Many Internet users have difficulties in registering with foreign virtual telephony services. This is due to the fact that many providers block such resources in order to prevent illegal actions on the Internet. In order to avoid blocking, there are several options, the main one of which is considered to change the IP address of a computer to a foreign one. In addition, you can use anonymizers, for example, the Tor browser or the ZenMate plugin.

If you are having difficulty using Pinger, there are a huge number of services on the Internet that provide virtual phone numbers (for example, Twilio, TextNow, CountryCod.org, etc.). A number of similar paid services are also actively developing, with a simplified registration procedure. All this allows us to assert that virtual telephony has solved the problem for many users of how to register in VK without a (real) number.

1.2. Registration in VK via Facebook

The social network "Vkontakte" is one of the most advertised Russian sites, which is in demand far beyond the borders of the Russian Federation. The desire of the owners of this resource to cooperate with other world famous social networks, in particular with Facebook, is quite justified. As a result, the owners of the page in the mentioned service have the possibility of simplified registration on Vkontakte. For those who do not want to "shine" their data, this is a unique chance how to register in VK without a phone and deceive the system.

The algorithm of actions here is quite simple and the first thing to do is to use an anonymizer. It is best to go to the Chameleon service, since the start page already contains links to all social networks or dating sites popular in Russia. This resource allows you to go to pages in Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte, Mamba, even if they are blocked by the site administration.

Many people will naturally wonder why they need to use anonymizers. The social network "Vkontakte" automatically recognizes from which country you entered the registration page. This is how the registration procedure looks like for residents of Russia and most of the post-Soviet countries:

And this is how the same page looks, but if you go to it outside the Russian Federation:

In the lower right corner of the screen there is an unobtrusive button Login with Facebook... Click on it, after which the window for entering an email address and password is instantly displayed:

After filling in the fields, you will be redirected to your own Vkontakte page, which you can subsequently edit at your discretion. To implement the presented method, a Facebook page is required, but the procedure for creating an account in it does not provide for the mandatory input of a mobile phone number (only an e-mail box). Facebook registration is one of the most understandable, as a result of which it will not cause any particular difficulties even for an unprepared computer user.

According to the latest rumors, the foreign analogue of Vkontakte is going to tighten the rules for using the resource, so the described method may soon become outdated. But for now, "Facebook" remains an affordable way to register in VK via mail without a phone number. Its advantages are quite obvious - anonymity and simplicity. It also takes a minimum of time to create a page, especially if you already have a Facebook account. The method has only one drawback: it lies in the impossibility of recovering data lost by the user (password for logging into the account).

1.3. Registration in VK via mail

Many users are worried about the question, how to register in VK via mail... Previously, one e-mail was enough to create an account, but since 2012, the management of the social network has introduced a mandatory rule for binding to a mobile phone. Now, before specifying an e-mail box, a window pops up with a request to enter a mobile number, which will receive a message with a personal code within 1-2 minutes.

Previously, many users, instead of a mobile phone, indicated a landline 11-digit number, launched the "Let the robot call" function, and then created a page using the code suggested by the computer. The main advantage of this method was the ability to register on Vkontakte free of charge and an unlimited number of times. In practice, it turned out that an infinite number of pages were registered on the same landline number, from which spam, offensive messages or threats were sent. Due to complaints from users, the administration of the social network was forced to abandon the option of creating an account via landline phones, leaving the ability to receive the code only on mobile networks.

Whoever claims anything today registration in VK via mail without a mobile phone number is unrealistic... At the same time, full access should be provided to the e-mail box, since it provides an additional opportunity to recover a lost password or to receive up-to-date news about innovations in a social network. Email may also be needed when the page is hacked. By sending a request to the technical support service, a letter will be promptly sent to the mailbox with instructions for restoring access.

Summing up, it should be noted that the topic of how to register on Vkontakte for free, without a real mobile phone number and entering personal information is rapidly gaining momentum. Increasingly, hundreds of programs appear on the Internet to hack or bypass the established registration rules. Most of them are spam or malicious viruses that are not helpful in solving the problem. The VK administration is making great efforts to reduce the number of fake accounts and protect its users. As a result, only the two listed methods of creating pages without specifying a personal phone number are considered effective.

If you know other options on how to register in VK without a number, write in the comments!

Today registration for many services is possible only by a unique phone number. Such services include the social network VKontakte. If for some reason you are faced with the need to register a second page on this site, but you have only one phone number, then you will be refused, since only one account can be linked to one phone. There is a way out - this is the use of virtual numbers.

Today, the Internet offers users a lot of useful services, among which the service of receiving SMS on a computer for registration in social networks has recently gained great popularity. Such services allow you to rent a phone number for a while, which you can specify when registering on the service and successfully receive an SMS message to it. More, as a rule, users do not need.

Services for registration VKontakte

As you can imagine, today there are more than one service for receiving SMS messages to a virtual number. Below we will take a look at the most stable and popular ones.

It is one of the most popular services for renting virtual numbers. Naturally, the services of the service are not free, but they are more than humane. So, for example, the cost of receiving SMS for registration in VK will cost you only 12 rubles. Agree, the price is ridiculous.

To work with the service, you will need to register an account, and then top up the internal wallet for the required amount (the website contains rates for registration in other social networks, moreover, you can immediately purchase a ready-made account).

After choosing a service, you will be assigned a special number, which must be indicated in the field when creating a page in VK. The SMS message will go to the sms-reg profile.

Another service from the same category as Sms-reg, however, unlike the first one, here the rates for registration in social networks are slightly lower.

So, using the capabilities of this service, you can register a new Vkontakte account for only 10 rubles. In general, the first and this service are very similar.

If the first two services are mainly aimed at registration in social networks, then Online SIM is a much more advanced version of the virtual number service, which allows you to receive messages, make mailings and even set up forwarding.

In addition, here you should pay tribute to this service - it allows you to try using the service of receiving SMS messages completely free of charge, which will allow you to register with VK without extra cash costs. If you want to use the service on an ongoing basis, for example, prolonging the activity of the number in case you are blocked in VK, then you will have to pay for the services of the service, but the fee is more than humane.

If you know the services that have been tested on your own experience for creating virtual numbers in order to create a VKontakte account, share them in the comments.