{"id":4133,"date":"2023-09-27T14:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesmsworks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2025-01-06T16:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:21:31","slug":"improving-international-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmsworks.co.uk\/blog\/improving-international-sms\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvements to configuring international SMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4133\" class=\"elementor elementor-4133\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-36357baf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"36357baf\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2fca0c6b\" data-id=\"2fca0c6b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c0cb763 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1c0cb763\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h1><strong>Improvements to configuring international SMS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For customers who send messages outside the UK, we\u2019ve made an enhancement to the way in which you can control the countries your account can send messages to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously there were only 2 options, international SMS enabled or UK only.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is fine but it means that if a mobile number is wrongly formatted, the incorrect number \u00a0 could match a format for a country which has a much higher tariff. In this case, you would have been charged for attempting to send a text to that country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now you can choose to switch individual countries off or on, so you have full control over which countries your account can send messages to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example if you know that you\u2019re never going to send messages to France and Germany you can switch those countries off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4134\" src=\"https:\/\/thesmsworks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Internatiional-SMS-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"international SMS controls\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesmsworks.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Internatiional-SMS-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesmsworks.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Internatiional-SMS-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesmsworks.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Internatiional-SMS.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To access international control, login to your account and go to SMS Credits &#8211; International SMS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please note that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thesmsworks.co.uk\/blog\/international-sms\/\">some countries are highly regulated and require registering<\/a><\/strong> before you can send texts there. (E.g USA, Canada, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thesmsworks.co.uk\/blog\/rules-for-sending-business-sms-messages-to-australia\/\">Australia<\/a><\/strong>, New Zealand and much of the middle east.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enabling SMS sending to restricted countries in your account, does not mean that you can send messages there without registration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need to send to a restricted country, drop us a line at <\/span><strong><a href=\"mailto:support@thesmsworks.co.uk\">support@thesmsworks.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and we\u2019ll talk you through the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Helping combat SMS pump fraud<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thesmsworks.co.uk\/blog\/sms-pumping\/\">SMS pumping<\/a><\/strong> is a type of SMS fraud where web forms that generate <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thesmsworks.co.uk\/blog\/sms-otp\/\">SMS one time passwords<\/a><\/strong> are hijacked by fraudsters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They generate vast numbers of fraudulent SMS OTPs from which they generate a revenue share. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f web forms are not adequately protected, then all SMS credits can be rapidly depleted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the new international controls, customers will be able ensure that SMS OTPs are only generated for authorised countries.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvements to configuring international SMS For customers who send messages outside the UK, we\u2019ve made an enhancement to the way 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