emergency_number
An emergency number, not a subscriber line
The input is the emergency number of its region (911, 112, 999), which connects to a service and never to a person, so it is not a subscriber number.
- appears in
- reason
- credits
- Free. Invalid numbers never cost a credit.
What it means
Emergency numbers are recognised from the short-number metadata of the country the request named, or the one the number itself identifies. They are answered by name rather than as too_short so a form can reject them with a clear message.
What to do
Reject it. Nothing about a person can be learned from an emergency number, and a system must never dial or text one.
Example response
{
"valid": false,
"reason": "emergency_number",
"e164": null,
"country": null,
"risk_score": null
}Abbreviated: a real answer carries all 33 fields, listed in the validate-phone reference.
Related
- missing_country · no country was given, and the input does not carry one
- invalid_country_code · the calling code after the + is not assigned to any country
- too_short · fewer digits than any number in that plan
- too_long · more digits than any number in that plan
- not_a_number · the input does not look like a phone number
- invalid_length · a digit count the plan never uses
- invalid_number · the right length, but not assignable under the plan
- unassigned_block · the regulator has not allocated the block the number sits in
- short_number · a short code or service number, not a subscriber line
- All verdict reasons
- Phone fields and the risk score
- API reference
markdown version: /docs/reasons/emergency_number.md