Web Service Enables Social Networking Websites to Conduct Real-Time, Phone Verification for Prevention of Harassers, Underage Sign-ups and Predators; Creation of Mobile Advertising Revenue
April 24, 2006 (Press Release) --
Plymouth, MN, April 24, 2006 – Phoneconfirm.com, the leading provider of automated, real-time, phone verification services, today announced general availability of its Phone Identity Verification (PIV) service for the social networking website industry.
PhoneConfirm.com PIV provides social networking websites with an automated, real-time, 24x7 service to link a verified phone number during the sign-up process to a new online profile at social networking websites. The PhoneConfirm.com service optimizes the ability of social networking websites to stop multiple accounts, spam-related profiles, repeat underage sign-ups, online predators, and fake or harassing profiles.
The service also enables social networking website to generate revenues by quickly and easily gathering verified phone numbers for “mobile marketing.” PhoneConfirm.com enables social networking websites to quickly and easily decrease legal, social, and system costs while increasing online security and safety as well as advertising revenues. Verifying the phone identity of users of social networking sites before allowing a new online profile is more-and-more critical for any social networking website. Phoneconfirm.com helps address both the security and identity bad news dominating the media landscape around social networking sites, while also pointing the way to the huge good news associated with the next generation of phone-based “mobile marketing.”
Because PhoneConfirm.com service requires a correct response to a call to a phone number while displaying a randomly-generated personal identification number (PIN) on the sign-up screen during the sign-up process the verified phone number is associated with the profile. Less intrusive than asking for credit-card information, but less easily faked than an anonymous email or street address, it is not easy to constantly create new phone numbers that can be instantaneously verified during each profile sign-up using Phoneconfirm.com. PhoneConfirm.com enables the verification of phone numbers that can then be tracked and “flagged” when associated with fraud, underage sign-ups, predatory behavior, scammers or spammers.
Moreover, rather than advertisers paying for a substantial percentage of profiles that are duplicates, scammers, or fake profiles these same advertisers will have verified phone numbers for the hottest marketing trends of 2006 – cell phone, mobile, short-text-message (SMS), or G3 marketing.
"Verifying phone identities makes a tremendous amount of sense for social networking websites because it enables them to improve safety and security, improve cost-efficiency, and enable additional marketing revenue," said Vadim Mazo, CEO, of PhoneConfirm.com. "This is what an online communication service must do – provide a solution to a problem and open up possibilities for the automation of business processes online so that companies can focus on the positive possibilities in the marketplace.”
PhoneConfirm.com PIV provides social networking websites with an automated, real-time, 24x7 service to link a verified phone number during the sign-up process to a new online profile at social networking websites. The PhoneConfirm.com service optimizes the ability of social networking websites to stop multiple accounts, spam-related profiles, repeat underage sign-ups, online predators, and fake or harassing profiles.
The service also enables social networking website to generate revenues by quickly and easily gathering verified phone numbers for “mobile marketing.” PhoneConfirm.com enables social networking websites to quickly and easily decrease legal, social, and system costs while increasing online security and safety as well as advertising revenues. Verifying the phone identity of users of social networking sites before allowing a new online profile is more-and-more critical for any social networking website. Phoneconfirm.com helps address both the security and identity bad news dominating the media landscape around social networking sites, while also pointing the way to the huge good news associated with the next generation of phone-based “mobile marketing.”
Because PhoneConfirm.com service requires a correct response to a call to a phone number while displaying a randomly-generated personal identification number (PIN) on the sign-up screen during the sign-up process the verified phone number is associated with the profile. Less intrusive than asking for credit-card information, but less easily faked than an anonymous email or street address, it is not easy to constantly create new phone numbers that can be instantaneously verified during each profile sign-up using Phoneconfirm.com. PhoneConfirm.com enables the verification of phone numbers that can then be tracked and “flagged” when associated with fraud, underage sign-ups, predatory behavior, scammers or spammers.
Moreover, rather than advertisers paying for a substantial percentage of profiles that are duplicates, scammers, or fake profiles these same advertisers will have verified phone numbers for the hottest marketing trends of 2006 – cell phone, mobile, short-text-message (SMS), or G3 marketing.
"Verifying phone identities makes a tremendous amount of sense for social networking websites because it enables them to improve safety and security, improve cost-efficiency, and enable additional marketing revenue," said Vadim Mazo, CEO, of PhoneConfirm.com. "This is what an online communication service must do – provide a solution to a problem and open up possibilities for the automation of business processes online so that companies can focus on the positive possibilities in the marketplace.”
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