State of OTP fraud
Live-Aggregate aus dem SMS-24 Korpus: 1,892,003 OTPs in 83 Ländern. Top-Dienste und 30-Tage-Trend.
Headline numbers
OTP messages observed
1,892,003
Unique phone numbers
1,639
Countries observed
83
OTP services
1,245
30-day message-volume trend
Top OTP-receiving services (by message volume)
Top countries by message volume
How to cite
This report is published under CC BY 4.0. Suggested citation:
SMS-24, "State of OTP fraud" (continuously updated). https://sms-24.net/data/otp-fraud-report — snapshot 2026-09-29.
Methodology
- Source: The SMS-24 scraper indexes 55+ public SMS-receive websites continuously. Every observed OTP message lands in our PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB
messageshypertable. - Aggregation cadence: The numbers on this page are recomputed every 30 minutes from the production database by the
seo_stats_aggregatortask and cached in Redis. - Service classification: The
service_namecolumn is filled by our processor pipeline that runs sender-fingerprint + body-pattern classification. Unknown senders are excluded from the top-services chart. - Country mapping: Country code derived from the E.164 prefix at ingest, not from sender geo — so the chart shows where the OTPs land, not where the senders are.
- Bias: Public SMS-receive sites over-represent disposable-number traffic. Treat these volumes as upper bounds on observable abuse, not absolute industry rates.
What's adjacent
- Enterprise pitch — SMPP, HLR, 0–100 rating, registration intel
- Per-country phone profile (242 countries)
- Public MCC/MNC database
- Free phone-reputation demo
Last refreshed: 2026-09-29T10:35:59.182628+00:00