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ip_country_differs_from_phone_country

The IP address and the phone number name different countries

The request geolocates to one country and the number was allocated under another country’s numbering plan.

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Free. The consistency analysis is arithmetic over answers already paid for and never costs a credit of its own.

What it means

As with the postal comparison, an anonymous, relayed or datacenter IP withholds the check rather than answering it.

A kept foreign number is the common innocent explanation, and it is very common.

What to do

Weigh it beside the rest of the answer; on its own it says only that two fields differ.

Example response

{
    "comparison": "ip_phone_country",
    "left": {
        "signal": "ip",
        "field": "country",
        "value": "ES"
    },
    "right": {
        "signal": "phone",
        "field": "country",
        "value": "GB"
    },
    "result": "differ",
    "flag": "ip_country_differs_from_phone_country"
}

Abbreviated: a real answer carries all 33 fields, listed in the validate-phone reference.

Related

markdown version: /docs/reasons/ip_country_differs_from_phone_country.md