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When you restart an Android or Apple phone after a long time, or of you have swapped SIMs, the phone will try and contact Apple or Google to check for updates and register its location for "Find-my-phone", verify the phone and SIM number with your iTunes, Google, Apple account and service etc.
Usually this registration is done over mobile data or wi-fi, but sometimes will also use a text message if the other options fail to connect. Whist neither Google or Apple publish, for security reasons, a full list of numbers that they use for these verifications, but, we have seen this type of traffic to the following pools of numbers. The numbers include (but are not limited to):
| 07903553650 |
| 07786209254 |
| 07520601001, 07520601002, 07520601003, 07520601004, 07520601005, 07520601006, 07520601007, 07520601008, 07520601009 |
| 07537452501, 07537452511, 07537452512, 07537452513, 07537452514, 07537452515, 07537452516, 07537452517, 07537452518, 07537452519, 07537452520, 07537452521, 07537452522, 07537452523, 07537452524, 07537452525, 07537452526, 07537452527, 07537452528, 07537452529 |
| +917834988881 |
If your phone cannot access the internet using mobile data or wi-fi to perform the Google account verification, it can send a text message to perform the verification. The phone will send a message to Google, and then receive a message back.
Usually the messages are read and deleted by the Android OS but sometimes this message is visible to the phone user and will be similar to: "Google is verifying phone# 07xxxxxxxxxxx1 of this device. 75OMHihp Learn more: https://goo.gl/LHCS9W". The link in the message above is valid and goes to https://support.google.com/android/answer/7521240
These texts are sent from the Operating System (OS) of the phone and not via the texting/messaging app of the phone there is often no record of them in your outgoing text message logs.
As these text messages are generated by your phone / device any charge for services you are using on your phone these messages are valid and are non-refundable.
We also believe that these issues relate mainly to phones manufactured before 2021 and for Google devices running Android 11 or earlier. Please check you have the latest software (iOS or Android) and all apps are up-to-date.