Get started with number validation: What it is and how you can use it to secure your app
The increase in mobile usage has changed the way people interact with brands. Thus, you need to stay in touch with customers through their favorite device: their mobile phone. And here it comes… Number Validation with which you can ensure that the phone numbers you collect are accurate. It will show you if a phone number either does exist or is indeed valid.
Furthermore, it can provide you with information such as the owner of the number, the network provider and its location. It will also give you details about the line type (landline or mobile) and whether it is reachable or fake. Number Validation can guarantee you have captured a real number alongside many more details about that number.
More specifically, via Number Validation you can:
• Perform an initial screening to your phone number databases. You can identify all invalid phone numbers and eliminate them from your database, avoiding unnecessary costs.
• You can learn the exact type of the number you have in hand (Line Type), eliminating fake accounts created using a virtual number, a common practice for cybercriminals to steal the identity of real users – your customers’, in specific – to take over their accounts. Note that it’s not only the time and money that your company loses but also its credibility.
•How about finding out which country the number you have is registered in, regardless of its country code, hence getting real information about who you are actually targeting, saving money and time and making sure you serve them the right content.
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•With Number Validation you have the opportunity to take advantage of portability detection by checking if a mobile number is ported and if yes, to which network, including the “final” mobile country code (MCC) and mobile network code (MNC). Thus, you can achieve more effective routing and more accurate billing.
•Last, you can identify all database entries that are not in accordance with number structure standards and retrieve both international and local formats with no trouble at all (Number Format), so as to form your contact databases accordingly.
In a few words, the process of Number Validation is not only going to ensure that you don’t waste money or time, but also it will secure your app, reduce workload since it is a fully automated process, it will increase your business performance and, last but not least, it will make sure that you reach actual people!
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