Yahoo asks for phone verification when creating a new account or recovering an existing one, mainly to cut down on spam signups. If you're testing an email integration, setting up a throwaway account, or don't want a personal number attached to it, a rented number covers the check.
Steps
- Rent a number for Yahoo — an instant rental is enough for a one-time verification.
- On Yahoo's phone-verification step, enter the rented number with its country code.
- Yahoo sends a verification code by SMS within seconds on a working number.
- Enter the code from your rental's status page to finish verifying.
Instant or monthly?
An instant rental is enough for the standard check. Choose monthly only if you expect Yahoo to re-verify the same number later, which isn't the common case.
Originally published at flo-voice1.com.
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