We blacklist SMS/voice forwarding services when we find them and re-suspend the accounts that used them. We haven't focused on it much so there are certainly services we haven't blacklisted yet.
Generally, using these services is dangerous. If spammers have used the same numbers you get allocated to bypass verification, you can be treated as part of the cluster and have your account terminated without appeal. I don't see the distinction between "pay somebody to create an account for you" and "buy an account". Both types of activity are likely to hit various tripwires that will result in forced phone verification of the account later on. Bear in mind it's not just at signup. If we suspect an account is being used abusively then the account can be locked until you pass SMS too. Right now I don't believe there is any safe way to use Google accounts via Tor if you aren't willing to provide a phone number, nor do I believe it's safe for any other large web service. Handling abuse whilst allowing discardable identities is a fundamental research problem the Tor team need to solve if they don't want Tor to be restricted to a "read only" internet (to use Greg Maxwells phrasing). _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
