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Mini

Plan

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  • Reserved Phone Number
  • 50 SMS msgs per month*
  • SMS msg -> Your Email inbox
  • Private, Secure, Anonymous
  • No Address/Info Required

    • *SMS receiving only.

$4.99

/ month

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FAQs

What is expatpho.net?

Hi! I'm Conor. I'm building expatpho.net to help out expats like myself. Often we have bank accounts and other online accounts in our home country that require a country-specific phone number. Instead of paying for an expensive mobile phone contract at home, you can use our minimal setup to receive your messages anywhere in the world.

expatpho.net provides private numbers that forward SMS and 2FA (2 Factor Authentication) text messages to your email inbox. You can securely use our numbers with any service that sends you text messages, like with your bank or any online account.

Benefits of using expatpho.net?
  • Simplest setup to receive texts
  • Works in your country of choice
  • Cheaper than normal phone contracts
  • Starts working in minutes
  • No physical address required
  • Your own phone number
  • 100% secure & anonymous
How do I get started?
  1. Choose a number above
  2. Sign up for an account
  3. Pay for your number
    • Tip: We recommend buying our yearly plan and immediately adding all your 2FA providers, so that if one doesn’t work, you can easily take advantage of the free refund period.
  4. Done! 🎉 You’re number will be receiving sms right way. Feel free to add it to your 2FA accounts
Are there restrictions? Can I make phone calls or send texts?

Our numbers only support receiving SMS messages and forwarding them to an email address.

What is supported ✅

  • Receiving text (SMS) and 2FA messages from mobile & short code numbers.

We do not support ❌

  • Making / Receiving calls
  • Sending SMS
  • Receiving MMS (picture messages)
  • Receiving SMS from other countries (e.g A US number can only receive messages from other US numbers)
How reliable is it? Does it work with x service?

expatpho.net numbers can receive messages from all mobile numbers and about four out of five 2FA providers provided that the phone number sending the text is from the same country (i.e A US expatpho.net number can only receive from a sending US phone number).

More on US numbers:
You cannot use mobile numbers without a sim card (and expensive contract). We do not have our customers use sim cards. This means we can only provide “local” numbers (landline that can receive sms) instead of “mobile” numbers to customers. We have found most 2FA services still work with our numbers, but sometimes, they will not send 2FA if a number is not a “mobile” number (i.e whatsapp requires a mobile number and won’t work with an expatpho.net number)

What if my provider doesn’t work?
If you have issues with any 2FA service, please let us know at support@expatpho.net and we can try to fix it. If you’d like to be sure everything works, we recommend buying our yearly plan, adding all your 2FA providers, and if one doesn’t work within the free refund period, we’ll happily give all your money back, no questions asked.

How do refunds work?

If you have issues with any 2FA service or don’t find expatpho.net useful, please let us know at support@expatpho.net and we can happily grant a refund (if you have purchased the yearly subscription and its within the free period time).

How do I get support/give feedback?

Feel free to reach out to us about anything at support@expatpho.net or thoughts@expatpho.net.