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robotmay who also replied to you is correct for what I do, I have multiple prepaid US SIMs with PAYGO rate plans. It's trivial to get many of these and register them in bulk to get "real" mobile numbers.

(This is why I laugh and laugh at people who insist that VoIP numbers are more "fraudulent" because of whatever. Right now, breaking no rules whatsoever, I can get a hundred mobile numbers that any service will accept, and they'll go for a year without needing any more money. Stop using phone numbers as identity verifiers, people. All you're doing is making it harder for the people who aren't technically savvy and accomplishing nothing to prevent actual fraud.)

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