Cheat SMS votes through Russian phone numbers, a good example is the All-Russian competition "Librarian of 2018" where choosing a specific the candidate must also insert the phone number and after receiving the SMS code, drive it into the voting field. At the same time, the numbers must be Russian, as well as IP addresses. The contest is checked by all types of protections and even manually by the administration, so that the votes do not pop up, we emulated the transition from the social network, platform and browser at each entry. Everything was different every time.

NEW LEADERS is a national TV project that also hosted the competition. Here, the SMS votes cheating was much more difficult, since during registration it was necessary not only to indicate the phone number that the SMS code would come, it was necessary to select the subtype of the phone by division (example: +3050 or +3099) and then drive in the remaining phone number. At the same time, it was necessary to go through Google captcha, and after that an SMS code could come to your phone. And then only if the IP address was from the geolocation of Ukraine, if it was from another country, then you would never have waited for this code.

Using the example of the Live Love Proud contest, we will now tell you how SMS votes were cheated through the numbers of a given geolocation. When registering on this site, you need to fill out a profile and select a region from Moscow to Yaroslavl, and only after that indicate a phone number suitable for a given city. Then if it was Moscow, then the number should have been, for example, 8945, and if Astrakhan, then 8917. Accordingly, to which city the project belonged, we selected phone numbers for this. At the same time, the network address (ip) had to be the same from a given geolocation, that is, belong to a city or region. The task was still the same, but we did it.