Prepaid mobile phone # cannot be verified?

[claus]

Hello,

My credit card bank tried to verify my purchases with a "3rd party verification system" but they said couldn't validate my mobile # so they just froze my cc and might even close the account. After a lot of back and forth, I realize the only issue is that my mobile # is prepaid. I realized postpaid mobile phone accounts are created by running credit and identity check, while prepaid accounts are not. I guess this is why the 3rd party verification system couldn't verify me? Has this occurred to anyone? This is subtle because I used to put down mobile # on my cc account without thinking about whether it's prepaid or postpaid. The cc bank also didn't require the mobile # be postpaid account when I applied the cc. My question is, if I get a postpaid mobile #, will the CC be able to immediately verify me?  I read in the history that even this might not work as the phone # have to be attached to you for a certain amount of time (I guess on the credit report?)

[Anonymous]

Is this prepaid as in you have an account but just pay in advance, or prepaid as in burner phone type thing, where there really is no linkage?   I would hope that the former should work, but if, as you say, no credit check, I guess that could prevent verification.

In the good old days, some places required a landline as that really tied you to a place, unlike those new-fangled cell-phones where you could be anyone anywhere....

[Kforce]

I have a pre-paid flip phone as my cell, ($10, 4-months,166-minutes) and

a network (sip/packet) home phone number.

Both, I log in and pull funds from a linked CC.

Neither are large famous companies.

Not a burner phone but not large well known phone companies.

Sip is "Callcentric" and flip-phone "Page-Plus"

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Just a data point

Have never had a problem to date.

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