Phone Verifications - When to Give Up?

Gwizzy

Gwizzy

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I've been getting phone verifications on several of my child accounts almost daily (multiple times in one day for two of them too), even after stopping all bot activity except for reposting one picture daily. When do you guys decide to just say "fuck it" and give up on an account? Would IG eventually let up if I do absolutely nothing on the accounts and keep verifying?
 
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Phone verification most likely occurs when they are unable to determine either the authencity, or the digital footprint of your account. What are you currently doing to isolate the accounts' relationship?
 
It is because of repost, or too many actions per day. And no, you will keep on getting pvs as long as you're doing repost, it doesn't get better over time.
 
Just a suggestion, I’m not sure how much of a pain it is to do phone verify. Do you make any revenue off of this account? You can do virtual SMS messaging through bandwidth.con and it only costs .35 a number per month. Incoming texts are also free. This means that if you have 100 accounts you could have a phone number per account for only $35/month and save you from losing the account. Check out the prices here: https://www.bandwidth.com/pricing/
 
Most of it comes down to account creation, proxies and settings..
1. How did you create those accounts? Or did you buy them?
2. wich proxies are you using to run them?
3. did you do a proper warmup, I am talking about a proper warmup
 
Personally I give up the accounts after PV loop for 3 days
 
fused6216 said:
Just a suggestion, I’m not sure how much of a pain it is to do phone verify. Do you make any revenue off of this account? You can do virtual SMS messaging through bandwidth.con and it only costs .35 a number per month. Incoming texts are also free. This means that if you have 100 accounts you could have a phone number per account for only $35/month and save you from losing the account. Check out the prices here: https://www.bandwidth.com/pricing/
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It's really cheap for virtual numbers but they only accept US cc as payment. They charge 1 cent for incoming text. Though it's taking a bit more work to manually phone verify accs, it's much more slower than using smspva or similar site. Another route is using sms api in jarvee or gmt, if OP don't mind the sms cost.
 
Yzetien said:
Phone verification most likely occurs when they are unable to determine either the authencity, or the digital footprint of your account. What are you currently doing to isolate the accounts' relationship?
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I created each account on a different IP address and made sure to vary the UserAgent of each account. I also cleared all personal data and blocked trackers and APIs.

Staystyled said:
Most of it comes down to account creation, proxies and settings..
1. How did you create those accounts? Or did you buy them?
2. wich proxies are you using to run them?
3. did you do a proper warmup, I am talking about a proper warmup
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1. I created the accounts manually in the browser over 4G/LTE. Each account was made on a different IP address. I made the account in batches, creating a few a day at different times.
2. After creation I switched the accounts over to rotating residential proxies. For some I waited over 24 hours to first run them on the proxies but that didn't seem to matter much.
3. In hindsight I'm realizing I probably rushed the warm up. I only warmed the accounts for about a week or so by viewing stories and liking posts of large celebrity accounts I followed right after I created the accounts. I did not do this aggressively, but I did receive two like blocks (not on the accounts that have received multiple PVs in one day) a few days into botting but none after making my settings even less aggressive.
 
Following.. gave up on 50 account because of same issue. Accounts were created with vpn
 
Which browser did you use, did you disable WebRTC in the web browser. You should check your proxies 4G/LTE regarding DNS leaks, I had some bad experience with them. ipleak.net for that.

It sounds like you might have been too aggressive without any generic creation of content or actions. Try to post something from somewhere else (still change the hash if you want), and do things that a bot cannot do. For example, watch stories and pause, view-back, skip-view etc. It's all pattern recognition systems, it can be fooled.
 
If you can keep functioning for the day after 1 verification then I don't see any problem. However as soon as I do any action and I get verification, I will ditch the account.
 
If you can keep functioning for the day after 1 verification then I don't see any problem. However as soon as I do any action and I get verification, I will ditch the account.
 
I actually think it is because of the rotating residential proxies...
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It is not normal to switch residential proxies all the time, for mobile it is, but don't tell me you jump around 20 different homes everyday when you use instagram...
 
Staystyled said:
I actually think it is because of the rotating residential proxies...
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It is not normal to switch residential proxies all the time, for mobile it is, but don't tell me you jump around 20 different homes everyday when you use instagram...
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That definitely could be the case considering that I have another account I've been running on a datacenter proxy with no issues (except for a few like blocks shortly after the account's creation when I was first learning about botting, proxies, and action limits). For my child accounts I was originally going to get mobile proxies but ended up choosing residential ones to save money. I may have to switch since all these phone verifications are adding up and could end up canceling out the difference in cost.

What exactly is a "raw mobile proxy"? I haven't heard that term before so I didn't even think to consider it as an option.
 
Gwizzy said:
That definitely could be the case considering that I have another account I've been running on a datacenter proxy with no issues (except for a few like blocks shortly after the account's creation when I was first learning about botting, proxies, and action limits). For my child accounts I was originally going to get mobile proxies but ended up choosing residential ones to save money. I may have to switch since all these phone verifications are adding up and could end up canceling out the difference in cost.

What exactly is a "raw mobile proxy"? I haven't heard that term before so I didn't even think to consider it as an option.
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Residential proxies are indeed better than data-centre, on data centre you probably won't even be able to follow... But not the rotating ones...
 
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