Is sms-verification-number.com safe?
http://sms-verification-number.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Paid SMS-activation service with a prepaid balance, balance-only refunds and a one-week refund cutoff
sms-verification-number.com, branded SV Number, sells short rentals of real SIM numbers so visitors can receive SMS verification codes, charged from a prepaid personal-account balance. The site is readable, publishes terms, a refund procedure, an email on its own domain and a postal address, and no malware or phishing pattern was found. The score sits in the Moderate band because the money flow is one-way in practice: refunds go back to the account balance, balances topped up more than a week before a complaint are not refunded, and accounts can be closed without refund for prohibited use. Independent research also returned adverse trust warnings.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLGridinsoftSaved antivirus result from Nov 1, 2026At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
1.4 years old
Registered May 19, 2025Expires May 19, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Jan 16, 2027 (65d)Hosting
United States (US)
Cloudflare, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
1/60
1 antivirus engine flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 12, 2026
Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 58/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 5 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
- Start65
- -2
- -2
- -2
- -1
- Score58
What pulled the score down
- ModerateRefunds are requested by email and reviewed in up to five business days, with remedies such as re-provision rather than a cash return.-2 pts
- ModerateNo refund is made where the balance was topped up more than one calendar week before contacting support, or where fraud or a provider/law-enforcement complaint is involved.-2 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "In summary, sms-verification-number.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam. Be very careful…"-2 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Sms-verification-number.com est signalé comme boutique suspecte."-1 pts
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsSupport email is on the site's own domain and a postal address is published, though no phone number is listed.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe domain is about 1 year 5 months old and the hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0 across 26 saved reports.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 65 to 58 and split those 7 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
sms-verification-number.com, branded SV Number, sells short rentals of real SIM numbers so visitors can receive SMS verification codes, charged from a prepaid personal-account balance. The site is readable, publishes terms, a refund procedure, an email on its own domain and a postal address, and no malware or phishing pattern was found. The score sits in the Moderate band because the money flow is one-way in practice: refunds go back to the account balance, balances topped up more than a week before a complaint are not refunded, and accounts can be closed without refund for prohibited use. Independent research also returned adverse trust warnings.
A paid number-rental service, not a free tool
The homepage offers a 20-minute rental of a non-VoIP number on a real SIM card, paid from the account balance, with the charge returned to the balance if no SMS arrives. The terms describe the service as technical access to the text of SMS messages received on a used number, with the site acting as an intermediary between the user and the mobile network.
Ordering requires registering a personal account, and the commercial path is entirely same-site: the Prices tab, 'Place your order', 'Order the number' and the terms' 'Buy a number' link all lead into that account and pricing flow. The footer and terms also point to rent.sms-activation-service.com for long-term rentals and to sv-number.com for delivery statistics, two other domains carrying the same brand; the pages do not disclose who owns them.
The site states plainly that it is not affiliated with the brands whose verification codes it receives, which is an honest disclaimer rather than a hidden claim.
Where the customer risk actually sits
Refunds are handled by email request with review in up to five business days, and the terms describe remedies such as re-provision rather than a cash return. The refund policy also states that no refund is made where the account balance was topped up more than one calendar week before the customer contacts support, or where the product was used for fraud or a complaint arrived from the number provider or law enforcement.
The terms allow immediate account termination without refund for prohibited use and let the service restrict or block numbers used for high-risk or regulated services. In practice a paid activation can fail or be blocked, and the money stays inside the account rather than coming back to the card.
The agreement is governed by the law of Singapore and requires a mandatory pre-trial claim reviewed within 60 calendar days, while the operator's legal entity name is not shown in the captured text. Contact is an email on the site's own domain plus a postal address, with no phone number listed.
Clean technical checks, mixed outside reputation
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. One saved antivirus engine marked the URL as suspicious; that result comes from a stored scan rather than a fresh submission, so it is a caution rather than a confirmed detection.
Independent research was adverse: one source rates the site's trust as very low and warns it may be a scam, another notes cryptocurrency services and anonymous payment methods, and a third lists it as a suspicious shop. These are third-party trust ratings, not documented customer losses, so they weigh on the score without proving a specific victim.
The domain is about 1 year 5 months old, registered through Dynadot with owner details not public, and the hosting IP carries 26 saved abuse reports but an abuse confidence score of 0. None of that establishes fraud on its own.
Why the score is 58
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from November 1, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
- Suspicious1
- Clean59
- Undetected33
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBusiness/Economy, Information Technology
- BitDefenderwebmail
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googletechnology
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Headline reads 'Buy a phone number for SMS verification' with subtext offering a 20-minute rental of a non-VoIP number on a real SIM card, paid from balance, with charge returned to balance if no SMS arrives. Beige 'Check the price' button below the hero text; top nav shows Receive SMS, Prices, SMS verification API, Free numbers, FAQ, EN, Sign in, Sign up. Right-side mock dashboard labelled 'EXAMPLE' shows sample verification codes for Discord and Google and a 'Discord account verified' card, illustrating how received codes appear. Small text under the CTA: 'Over a thousand services available for SMS verification. We are not affiliated with the brands listed.'
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Headline reads 'Buy a phone number for SMS verification' with subtext offering a 20-minute rental of a non-VoIP number on a real SIM card, paid from balance, with charge returned to balance if no SMS arrives.
- 02
Beige 'Check the price' button below the hero text; top nav shows Receive SMS, Prices, SMS verification API, Free numbers, FAQ, EN, Sign in, Sign up.
- 03
Right-side mock dashboard labelled 'EXAMPLE' shows sample verification codes for Discord and Google and a 'Discord account verified' card, illustrating how received codes appear.
- 04
Small text under the CTA: 'Over a thousand services available for SMS verification. We are not affiliated with the brands listed.'
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 12
Where the page went
- First loadsms-verification-number.comSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
No test click was made on this page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Buy a phone number for SMS verification - SV Number
- Meta description
Rent a non-VoIP number on a real SIM for 20 minutes, receive verification SMS; refund to balance if no SMS arrives. 200+ countries, prices from $0.30, auto refund.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/en/terms-of-service/Read
- Refund / returns policy/en/refund-policy/Read
- Shipping policy/en/delivery-policy/Read
- Support / FAQ/en/support/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Buy a phone number for SMS verification - SV Number
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
5 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Saas
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
Web research findings
Independent findings for sms-verification-number.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- ScamAdviseropen
"In summary, sms-verification-number.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam. Be very careful when using this website!"
- ScamAdviseropen
"We detected cryptocurrency services which can be high risk Anonymous payment methods were identified on this site"
- Gridinsoftopen
"Sms-verification-number.com est signalé comme boutique suspecte."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domainsms-verification-number.com
- Redirects tosms-verification-number.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.bunny.net · cdn.tailwindcss.comand 15 more
Domain Timeline
- May 19, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.4 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 12, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@sms-verification-number.com).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 12, 2026: 74% of the registration period had passed
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
At the scan on Nov 12, 2026: 28% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for sms-verification-number.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Yandex Metrica
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- cdnjs
- jsDelivr
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sms-verification-number.com/
- 2200https://sms-verification-number.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
Advertising1
- stats.g.doubleclick.netcontacted
Analytics & tracking6
- analytics.google.comcontacted
- google-analytics.comcontacted
- googletagmanager.comin pagecontacted
- mc.yandex.comcontacted
- mc.yandex.ruin pagecontacted
- static.cloudflareinsights.comin pagecontacted
CDN & fonts4
- cdn.jsdelivr.netin pagecontacted
- cdn.tailwindcss.comin pagecontacted
- cdnjs.cloudflare.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.bunny.netin pagecontacted
Other / unknown11
- apnews.comin page
- benzinga.comin page
- finance.yahoo.comin page
- globenewswire.comin page
- ktla.comin page
- kxan.comin page
- markets.businessinsider.comin page
- mc.webvisor.orgcontacted
- rent.sms-activation-service.comin page
- sv-number.comin page
- wgntv.comin page
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Independent research | 5 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Independent research
- Result5 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is sms-verification-number.com a scam or is it safe?
Is sms-verification-number.com safe to use?
Has sms-verification-number.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is sms-verification-number.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the sms-verification-number.com domain?
Does sms-verification-number.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is sms-verification-number.com hosted?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Paid SMS-activation service with a prepaid balance, balance-only refunds and a one-week refund cutoff
sms-verification-number.com, branded SV Number, sells short rentals of real SIM numbers so visitors can receive SMS verification codes, charged from a prepaid personal-account balance. The site is readable, publishes terms, a refund procedure, an email on its own domain and a postal address, and no malware or phishing pattern was found. The score sits in the Moderate band because the money flow is one-way in practice: refunds go back to the account balance, balances topped up more than a week before a complaint are not refunded, and accounts can be closed without refund for prohibited use. Independent research also returned adverse trust warnings.
09 · Community
Community
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