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If you really want to orchestrate some sort of spam attack with bots. You can just purchase a hundred numbers on twilio or bandwidth and just automate the who OTP process with Puppeteer. If it’s important enough.

You’re right about it being a lot more annoying though.



Twillio and Google Voice numbers do not work for phone verification on Twitter/Facebook/Google properties. VoIP phone numbers are sold in blocks and well-known to companies who subscribe to those lists (basically all social media). Twilio numbers do work for the scrappier sites though.


The service has to just not allow VoIP numbers like Twilio. A handful are already like that. Like Craigslist as last example I came across.




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