In Russia, sales of numbers increased after the disappearance of services in 2022. Vedomosti and representatives of the SMS-activation service Grizzly SMS and cloud telephony Novofon.com write about this.
There is also Yandex statistics about high demand. The number of arrivals by “virtual number” in the second half of 2022 increased by one and a half times compared to the same period in 2021 (from 690 thousand to 1.1 million).
A virtual number allows you to register via SMS, even if the service does not officially work in Russia.
The Russians began to buy virtual numbers for registration on foreign services
Selling foreign SMS numbers is in the gray area of surveillance, experts say
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Source: Iphones RU
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