Bypass email and SMS account verification

Bypass email and SMS account verification

Is a common use in a lot of web site, like forums and similar, to ask for a valid email address during registration phase. The way how is possible to verify the email you inserted is a valid address is well known. The site send to the email address you provided an automatic message containing a link to visit for activate the account just registered. If no valid email is provided you can not activate the account. Some other big networks of Internet, like Facebook or Google, recently started to ask for a valid cell phone number to send an SMS containing a code for unlock or verify the account. If you want to avoid to hand in your personal info is there some tricks that, if you are lucky, can help you to keep your life a little more private.

Email verification

Bypass an email verification request is really easy. It exist a lot of services that, for free, allow you to create a temporary email address to use just for receive the verification message. Once received the message and validated the account thought the link provided you can forget the email address just used. This email address will exist for 10 minutes, one hour, one day and so on. Depends on the service you selected. Just for give a short reference follow a list of some of these web services. These are only an example, you can find a lot of other alternatives just googling around.

10 Minute Mail

20minutemail.com

2prong

30 minutes mail

Bigstring

Dispostable

Emailzorz

Filzmail

Mailcatch

Maileater.com

Please note that, usually, these services allow to create an email address only for receive, you can not use these service for send mails.

SMS verification

Bypass an SMS verification is much more difficult. Basically you need an "alternative" phone number where to receive the SMS with unlock or verification code. If you live in the Unites States is strongly suggested to activate a Google Voice account. This service give you a phone number for free that you can use for call someone and send or receive SMS as well. Unfortunately, at the moment, this service is available only for US residents. For all the other people around the world there are some alternatives but not all are free and not all can work well for your purposes. The most direct way to try as first is to use what is called "shared numbers". Some web site make available one or more "public" phone numbers you can use for receive the SMS verification message. The main advantage of this kind of service is that, usually, you don't need a registration. Browsing into the site is possible to see on real-time all the message arrived to the specific numbers you chose to use. Simply provide this number to the site requiring verification and wait for the SMS containing the unlock code that should appear in the list as soon as is received. For make an example regarding the service I'm talking about this is a link to one of them:

Receive-sms-online

These kind of service born and die very fast so if the link just provided doesn't work tell me through the comment of this post. The disadvantages of this approach is basically that the messages received are public, anyone who browse the site can see them. This mean you must not use them for receive important verification like, for example, the banking account, PayPal and so on. The other disadvantages is that these services (and the site linked above in particular) is know by a lot of other people that continuously try to use them for every kind of verification. In particular, if you are planning to use these number for receive Facebook SMS verification code, you need to know that Facebook keep a list of the last numbers used for verify every accounts. This mean when you'll insert one of these numbers into Facebook field for ask for the SMS is quite sure an error will be show telling you that this number was already used by another person. However it seem that Facebook "reset" this number list after some time so, if you really are obstinate, you can try to continuously insert this number waiting for the moment Facebook will "forget" this number was used and allow you get the verification code through this way. Good luck.

Other kind of services allow to keep more privacy but, in consequence of this, require a registration and most of them are not free. Quite all of these services can assign you a personal "virtual" phone number based to VOIP technology. The few free services around can allow you to use this number only for send or receive SMS in US region (but for our purposes is enough). Other more sophisticated act like a personal answering machine and have a lot of features that can be surely useful but you have to pay for them. Follow a short example list of some of them (mixed free and pay), as before you can find more just googling a little:

411SMS

Esendex

Fabit

Lleida

Pinger

SMSField

txtDrop

Ysend

Regarding pay services is a common commercial use to give you a short trial period for test the service itself. You can use this time for verify if the service is working for you and, in case, decide to pay for it. Again if you are planning to use one of these services for get Facebook SMS it seem Facebook have some problem to send SMS to VOIP number (I read around the SMS doesn't arrive but I didn't tested personally so I don't know for sure). On the contrary, always reading around, no problem with Google SMS.

If you know some other way to bypass account verifications feel free to add your suggestion using the comment on this post. Thank you just in case ;-)