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

Leboncoin is where France sells its used furniture, cars, flats and baby clothes. The site asks for a phone number to confirm an account and to protect sign-ins, and a listing can show that number to anyone interested. Popular ads get calls at dinner time and messages from people who are not buying anything. A rented French number handles the confirmation and keeps your own out of it.

Leboncoin is French, and it expects a French number. A French mobile number starting 06 or 07 is what the form accepts without fuss. After the code, conversations can stay in Leboncoin's own messaging, where the site can see and act on scam attempts. Set a password you will remember before the rented number returns to the pool, since Leboncoin may send a code again on a new phone or browser.

How the phone check works

Leboncoin sends a code by SMS to confirm the number on your account. The number is then used to check new sign-ins and, if you choose, shown on your ads so buyers can call. You can post without displaying it and let buyers write through the site instead, which most sellers find calmer.

Numbers from the free public inboxes online, and many internet phone numbers, are refused or never receive the code, because Leboncoin sees a lot of accounts opened for scams. The numbers rented here come from real French mobile ranges.

The scams that target sellers

The classic Leboncoin fraud is aimed at the person selling. A buyer offers to pay through a delivery or payment service, then sends a link by SMS, email or WhatsApp to a copied page that asks for your card details to receive the money. Nobody needs your card number to pay you.

Keep conversations inside Leboncoin, use the site's own secure payment and delivery where it offers them, and ignore links from buyers. Not showing a personal phone number on the ad cuts off the text-message version of the scam.

Accounts Leboncoin removes

An account for a small business kept apart from a personal one is normal, and Leboncoin has professional accounts for sellers who trade regularly. The site removes accounts that post fake listings, repost the same ad to dodge limits, or take money for items that do not exist. It links accounts through devices and payment details as well as numbers.

Our acceptable use policy says the same thing. Once the account is set up, keep the password strong and the email current, since the rented number returns to the pool after the activation window.