GSMA Disposable Number Check
Protect your business and customers by tracking the use of disposable numbers, helping you prevent fraudulent access and abuse before it happens.
What is GSMA Disposable Number Check?
Prevent several forms of digital fraud that affect your business and customers, by blocking compromised disposable numbers on your platform or network. Fraudsters use disposable numbers to create fake accounts and blend in as legitimate users, so they can:
- Bypass age or geographical restrictions.
- Abuse free trials, polls and contests.
- Produce scams, spam and fake news.
Reasons to use GSMA Disposable Number Check
- Prevent fraud and abuse: prevents fake sign-ups, abuse on social, messaging, or dating platforms, and ensures geo-restriction enforcement for media and streaming services.
- Verify identity: financial institutions and fintech providers can improve identity verification, reduce fraud risk, and enhance detection of account takeover attempts.
- Detect threats: cybersecurity and fraud intelligence teams can enrich threat detection and risk scoring with number intelligence and investigate bots, phishing, and coordinated abuse.
- Enforce compliance: regulated online services can enforce compliance and accountability by blocking temporary numbers and preventing underage access through fake verifications.
Use One-Time Passwords (OTPs) sent via SMS for customer verification?
Your business and customers are at risk from digital fraud, as OTPs often use publicly available disposable numbers. GSMA Disposable Number Check gives you access to a comprehensive database of disposable numbers, along with their history and real-time data on their use – so you can block them swiftly where necessary. This service is available as a standalone or an addition to GSMA IRSF Prevention – please get in touch to find out more by completing this form.