leboncoin asks for a phone number before it lets you in. No code, no charge: a number that never receives one costs you nothing. You choose the market, we hand you a real number, and whatever leboncoin texts to it appears in your SMS For U account within seconds of leboncoin releasing it. The same catalogue covers 2,400 services and buys numbers on four continents.
How you get your code
- Search leboncoin inside SMS For U.
- Choose the market you want the leboncoin number to come from, out of whatever the app currently offers.
- One confirmation later the number belongs to you.
- Put it into leboncoin at the phone verification step in your profile and request your code.
- leboncoin texts it over, SMS For U catches it for you, and you copy it across.
Why a phone number is asked for
leboncoin 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. leboncoin does not ask during sign-up: the number is added later, in the account settings. The number goes in at: the phone verification step in your profile. leboncoin 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
leboncoin sends a short numeric code by SMS. Whatever leboncoin texts to the number is delivered into your SMS For U account automatically, a few seconds behind leboncoin, with nothing to forward. Codes from leboncoin go stale fast; use it as soon as it lands rather than later. One number normally carries one leboncoin account.
What can go wrong
leboncoin accepts numbers from many countries but not from all of them. Which countries work for leboncoin changes over time, because leboncoin 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 leboncoin take it. Nothing here commits leboncoin to an outcome, and no hit rate is on display: a published figure would be wrong long before you read it.
Countries we serve
Numbers for leboncoin come from the 50 markets listed below, and the same list stands behind every other service in the catalogue. Read it as where we work, not as a statement that each of them is free for leboncoin at this moment: ranges of numbers are used up and refilled through the day. Which of them you can really pick for leboncoin is on the screen in the app where you choose one, and that screen is the only 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 a leboncoin verification code without my own SIM card?
Open SMS For U, search for leboncoin and pick a country. You get a real phone number, you enter it at leboncoin (the phone verification step in your profile), and the code leboncoin sends appears in your SMS For U account by itself. No SIM card is involved, and the leboncoin number is not yours to keep.
How fast does the leboncoin code arrive?
The leboncoin code appears in your account within seconds of leboncoin sending it. How long leboncoin itself takes is up to leboncoin and to the country the number comes from, which is why nothing here is worded as a promise.
What happens if no leboncoin code arrives?
You do not pay for a leboncoin 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 leboncoin attempt costs nothing: no code, no charge.
Which countries can I use for leboncoin?
leboncoin numbers come from the 50 markets listed on this page. Which of them can be picked for leboncoin 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 leboncoin again later?
Sometimes. leboncoin can ask for the same number again on a new device, and a used leboncoin number is not reserved for you indefinitely. If you need lasting access to a leboncoin account, use a number of your own.