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Preventing Spam & Fraud with SMS Phone Verification

If you’ve used a service like Google Calendar that sends out reminders via SMS, you may recall that when you set up your mobile device to receive alerts, the application verified that you were the owner of the device. This … Continue reading

Posted by John Sheehan on May 11, 2010 Tagged , , , ,

Simple Phone Verification with Twilio, PHP, MySQL and jQuery

See the most updated version of these instructions and sample code here. As more and more applications integrate with phones there is an increasing need to verify phone numbers to help prevent spam, fraud and other dubious activities. In these … Continue reading

Posted by John Sheehan on May 4, 2010 Tagged , , , , ,