Badoo SMS VERIFICATION Receive the Badoo code on a rented number.

Badoo is a dating app owned by Bumble Inc., used most in Europe and Latin America. You can register with a phone number and an SMS code, and Badoo may ask for a number later to confirm the account. Dating is where people are most careful with their personal number, because a phone number leads to messaging apps, social profiles and sometimes a home address. A rented number keeps that link out of the profile.

Badoo does not show your number to matches. The risk comes later, when a conversation moves off the app and someone asks for your WhatsApp. A separate number for that stage is the privacy habit dating safety guides recommend, and a rented one works for the Badoo code at signup.

How Badoo verifies an account

Badoo accepts registration with a phone number, confirmed by a code, and also offers sign-in with other accounts. On top of that, it asks many users for photo verification, where you copy a pose in a selfie and Badoo compares it with the profile photos. Verified profiles get a badge.

The phone code proves a working number. The photo check proves the person matches the pictures. Neither shows the number to anyone else on the app. The number also lets Badoo limit how many accounts one person creates.

Keeping the account after the number returns

If you registered with the phone, Badoo can use it to sign you in with a code. Add an email and a password in the settings right after registration, so you can reach the account without the number. Registering through a Google account is another route that leaves sign-in independent of the phone.

If Badoo later asks for a code on a new phone, rent a number again. Accounts that switch numbers often can draw extra checks, so keep sign-in on the email once it is set up.

The number for after the match

When a match wants to move to another app, give them a number set up for that purpose rather than your main one. A separate WhatsApp account on a second number lets you chat, and you can delete it if a conversation goes wrong, without changing the number your family and bank use. Report a profile that asks for money or pushes to leave the app within the first messages. Badoo's safety pages list both as common scam patterns.

Badoo's rules allow one account per person, and it bans fake profiles and accounts made to return after a ban. Bumble and Tinder use similar rules and similar phone checks. Blocking a match inside the app also removes them from your chats and search results.