User validation is required in order to avoid multiple sign-ups of all kinds. This service is commonly used for protection of marketing sign-ups, all sorts of trial offers, shareware downloading, free merchandise distribution and so on. It becomes too difficult for someone to sign up more than once if user validation via VOIP is used. For ordinary user such validation is very simple and takes no time at all.

Here how it generally works:

• 1. When user creates a new account and provides his/her phone number, our customer does the following:
  • 1.1. Generates a random PIN-code and shows it to the user.

    

  • 1.2. Asks user to make himself available to answer the phone.
  • 1.3. Sends verification request along with user's phone number provided at the time of signup to Proveout.com.

    

• 2. When Proveout.com receives verification request from one of its clients, it does the following:
  • 2.1. Searches through various databases to collect information about user's phone number.
  • 2.2. Dials this phone number.

    

  • 2.3. Asks user to enter PIN-code shown (see 1.1) via phone keypad.

    

  • 2.4. Records all of the information into database so that our client could access it later on.
  • 2.5. Passes gathered information to the customer that includes country, region and city name from the phone number, phone type (i.e. mobile, landline, VOIP phone such as Skype and so on) and the PIN-code entered by user.

    

• 3. Upon receiving information from Proveout.com, our customer does the following:
  • 3.1. Compares PIN-code passed by Proveout.com with the PIN-code that was shown to the user.

    

    

  • 3.2. Evaluates all of the information passed by Proveout.com (geographic location of phone number, phone number type and so on).
  • 3.3. Makes thorough decision on account activation.

This simple procedure will steer away most of wrongdoers who, for example, want to receive free merchandise or download shareware several times. In fact, Proveout's services will save a great deal of money for such companies as they will no longer have to use complicated verification systems in order to deliver goods or software to target audience.