topic Re: How do I get a US phone number for credit card verification? in General Credit Topics

How do I get a US phone number for credit card verification?

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:16:00 GMT

Hello everyone,

I've been out of the credit game for a minute and I'm just now starting to get my groove back. I live in Paris and when applying for credit I always run into problems because I don't have a US phone number for verification purposes. I've been using my mother's number as a work around but that has caused even more problems. Does anyone know where I can get a cheap US number that has a call forwarding option to an international number?

Re: How do I get a US phone number for credit card verification?

OmarR — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:50:28 GMT

Have you tried Google Voice? I don't know if that would work for verification purposes.

Re: How do I get a US phone number for credit card verification?

Kforce — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:56:03 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Does anyone know where I can get a cheap US number that has a call forwarding option to an international number?

Many "Sip" / Internet packet based phone service providers.

Callcentric.com

https://www.callcentric.com/

Cost about $2 a month plus 1.5c a minute.

Load funds, calls subtracted by length of time (minutes) from account balance.

Re: How do I get a US phone number for credit card verification?

ChargedUp — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 02:35:19 GMT

I used a MagicJack for years. You can order it online and have a US number that you can answer and make calls from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Just use your mothers address for location most used and it'll offer a number from that area.

Re: How do I get a US phone number for credit card verification?

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 03:50:20 GMT

Google Voice works with many credit card companies but more and more they are shooting down Google Voice and any other number that is tied to IP telephony. I ran into problems with both Synchrony and Capital One when using my Google Voice number for verification and I've had it since 2007/2008 when it was still Grand Central.

Re: How do I get a US phone number for credit card verification?

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:37:44 GMT

Why not just have your Mother get a cellphone from a US carrier in your name using her locale?

Re: How do I get a US phone number for credit card verification?

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:57:37 GMT

I can't advise what to use, but make sure whatever option you choose can receive and send text messages.