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Emmanuel Agwu
From seamlessly opening bank accounts to conducting high-volume transactions, phones have developed to become a one-stop shop for most financial needs today. Basically, they have become an integral part of the financial system and by extension, an integral part of preventing financial crimes. Organisations today can leverage a customer's phone number to verify their identity and other signs that may be indicative of a risk. Therefore, phone number verification in South Africa could be important in Anti Money Laundering compliance (AML) or Know Your Customer (KYC) processes.
Phone number verification is the process of verifying that a phone number provided by a customer is valid and truly owned by the customer. Essentially, it serves as a way to verify a client's identity by checking the official registry for whom that number is registered.
Phone number verification helps organisations:
Overall, phone number verification in South Africa is important for fighting fraud. This is because fraudsters do not use their real phone numbers and resort to other means. Additionally, other risk signals could be identified even if the phone number provided is valid.
Phone number verification could be adapted to work differently depending on the scenario. Smile ID’s phone number verification in South Africa solution follows the process:
Collect the customer's phone number and optional fields such as name, gender, and personal identity number through your onboarding form.
Submit information to our Identity Verification API to query the government database using only the phone number.
Results will return a value of no match, partial match, or exact match, along with detailed data from specific fields that match.
With access to over 40 million records in South Africa, our solution empowers businesses to verify and onboard customers with their phone numbers via API integration. Book a free demo today to learn more.
Ultimately, verifying a phone number is fully compliant for low-level account opening and could be adapted for low friction onboarding for low-risk accounts. Smile ID’s phone number verification solution for South Africa simply searches the government databases with the phone number provided for a match and gives results in less than 2 seconds.
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