No consumer wants to be the victim of fraud or the recipient of unwelcome spam, and no app or service provider wants to unwittingly harbor spammers or fraudsters.

With fraudulent account creation on the rise, it has become critical for businesses of all kinds to ensure that new users are legitimate — keeping spammers and scammers out of your platform.

An ideal way to accomplish this is by using phone numbers to validate the identity of an individual.

Discover the top 7 key challenges for phone verification and how to overcome them.