Amazon will not let you finish without a phone number. No code, no charge: you pay nothing for a number that never receives one. SMS For U rents you a real one — pick a market, put the number into Amazon, and the Amazon code lands in your account seconds after Amazon sends it. Amazon is one of 1,400 services in the catalogue, with numbers from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa.
How you get your code
- Open SMS For U and search for Amazon.
- Pick a country from the list the app shows for Amazon right now — that list is Amazon's own.
- Confirm, and the number for Amazon is yours straight away.
- Enter it at Amazon — the sign-up form, or Login & security → Mobile phone number — and ask Amazon for the code.
- The Amazon code appears in SMS For U on its own. Copy it back into Amazon.
Why a phone number is asked for
Amazon wants a phone number so buyers and sellers can be reached about an order, and so one person does not open an unlimited number of accounts. Amazon asks for it on the sign-up form, before the account exists at all. The number goes in at: the sign-up form, or Login & security → Mobile phone number. Amazon can ask for the same number again later — on a new device, after a password change or during a routine check. Bear that in mind before you tie an account to a number you will not have access to in a month.
What the code looks like
Amazon sends a 6-digit code by SMS, and on some accounts as a voice call instead. The message from Amazon arrives in your account unaided — no refreshing, no forwarding, and no second device involved in reading the Amazon code. The window Amazon allows is short, so do not leave the code sitting in your account. One number can usually serve more than one Amazon account, although Amazon may limit that.
What can go wrong
Amazon accepts numbers from many countries but not from all of them. Which countries work for Amazon changes over time, because Amazon adjusts its checks and because the available ranges of numbers change. That is the honest state of it — we can hand you a number, we cannot make Amazon take it. Nothing on this page is a promise that Amazon will accept a number, and no success figure is printed here, because any figure would be out of date by the time you read it.
Countries we serve
We work in the 50 markets set out below, and an Amazon number can come from any of them at one time or another. That is a map of our reach, not a stock report: what is free for Amazon moves hour by hour as ranges are spent and replenished. Before you count on a particular market for Amazon, look at the country screen in the app, which is the one place this question has a current answer.
- Germany
- Austria
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- France
- Spain
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Poland
- Portugal
- Sweden
- Norway
- Denmark
- Finland
- Ireland
- Czechia
- Slovakia
- Hungary
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Slovenia
- Greece
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Cyprus
- Malta
- Iceland
- USA
- Canada
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Argentina
- Colombia
- India
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Vietnam
- Thailand
- Singapore
- Hong Kong
- Japan
- Australia
- South Africa
- Nigeria
- Turkey
- Ukraine
Common questions
How do I get an Amazon verification code without my own SIM card?
Open SMS For U, search for Amazon and pick a country. You get a real phone number, you enter it at Amazon (the sign-up form, or Login & security → Mobile phone number), and the code Amazon sends appears in your SMS For U account by itself. No SIM card is involved, and the Amazon number is not yours to keep.
How fast does the Amazon code arrive?
The Amazon code appears in your account within seconds of Amazon sending it. How long Amazon itself takes is up to Amazon and to the country the number comes from, which is why nothing here is worded as a promise.
What happens if no Amazon code arrives?
You do not pay for an Amazon number that brought no code. Cancel the order in the app and the payment is refunded as soon as the cancellation is confirmed. That is the whole rule, and it is why a failed Amazon attempt costs nothing: no code, no charge.
Which countries can I use for Amazon?
Amazon numbers come from the 50 markets listed on this page. Which of them can be picked for Amazon at this moment is on the country screen in the app: that list moves through the day, and a page in a search index cannot keep up with it.
Can I use the same number for Amazon again later?
Sometimes. Amazon can ask for the same number again on a new device, and a used Amazon number is not reserved for you indefinitely. If you need lasting access to an Amazon account, use a number of your own.