It helps because if you or anyone one else actually has a friend or business partner in the United States they could verify it easily for you, but if you want to invest more money into Skype and cell phones be my guest.
I'd much rather have the damn thing call the pay phone and remain completely under the radar if you wish to remain anonymous to them.
If you don't know where to start, then you should just turn your computer off or go back to your forums and have them do it for you.
Don't worry about me chief. I was offering to verify peoples accounts for them. People don't want to buy skype accounts or US payphones when they can just ask an american to help.