Signal SMS messages — what it actually sends

Signal

Signal registers a phone number and sends a numeric code by SMS. This page shows what those messages look like — the sender IDs, the wording, the countries they land in. The codes themselves are redacted: the feed is the reference, not a way to read someone else's login.

Latest Signal messages

4,352 messages observed · 10 shown · illustrative sample

  • Signal🇵🇱 Poland12s ago

    SIGNAL: Your code is: •••-•••. Do not share this code.

  • Signal🇪🇪 Estonia31s ago

    SIGNAL: Your code is: •••-•••. Do not share this code.

  • Signal🇳🇱 Netherlands1m ago

    SIGNAL: Your code is: •••-•••. Do not share this code.

  • Signal🇵🇹 Portugal3m ago

    SIGNAL: Your code is: •••-•••. Do not share this code.

  • Signal🇺🇸 United States7m ago

    SIGNAL: Your code is: •••-•••. Do not share this code.

  • Signal🇩🇪 Germany14m ago

    SIGNAL: Your code is: •••-•••. Do not share this code.

  • Signal🇪🇸 Spain22m ago

    SIGNAL: Your code is: •••-•••. Do not share this code.

  • Signal🇬🇧 United Kingdom38m ago

    SIGNAL: Your code is: •••-•••. Do not share this code.

  • Signal🇵🇱 Poland51m ago

    SIGNAL: Your code is: •••-•••. Do not share this code.

  • Signal🇪🇪 Estonia1h ago

    SIGNAL: Your code is: •••-•••. Do not share this code.

Illustrative sample — not a live feed. Codes are always redacted.

Which countries Signal delivers to

What we know about each Signal route, labelled by its source. Routes we have measured ourselves come first; a route we know nothing about says so in words.

  • 🇵🇱PolandWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇮🇳IndiaWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇻🇳VietnamWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇧🇩BangladeshWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇵🇰PakistanWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇹🇷TurkeyWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇫🇷FranceWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇯🇵JapanWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇺🇸United StatesWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇪🇸SpainWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇳🇬NigeriaWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇨🇦CanadaWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇬🇭GhanaWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇪🇬EgyptWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇵🇹PortugalWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇮🇩IndonesiaWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇬🇧United KingdomWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇪🇪EstoniaWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇳🇱NetherlandsWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇧🇷BrazilWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇩🇪GermanyWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇨🇳ChinaWe don't have data for this route yet
  • 🇵🇭PhilippinesWe don't have data for this route yet

The limitations, plainly

Public pools are shared, recycled, and frequently already flagged by anti-fraud vendors. Signal may refuse a public number outright, or accept it and never deliver the code.

Any code that does arrive on a free number is visible to everyone reading the page — including whoever used that number before you. For an account you intend to keep, that is a real risk, not a theoretical one.

Signal messages, in detail

  • Why are the codes hidden?

    On purpose. This feed exists to show what Signal sends — the sender IDs, the wording, the shape of the message — not to hand out live codes. Publishing the digits would mostly serve people trying to enter accounts that aren't theirs.

  • What does Signal actually send?

    Signal registers a phone number and sends a numeric code by SMS.

    The feed above shows the message shapes we've observed, with the code replaced by dots. Sender IDs vary by country and by Signal's own routing — the same flow can arrive from a branded ID in one country and a generic gateway ID in another.

  • Why didn't a Signal code reach my free number?

    Signal, like most large services, filters public pools. The number may be refused at the form, or accepted with the code silently dropped. That's a property of shared numbers, not of this site.

  • What's different about a private Signal number?

    It isn't in a public pool, so it isn't pre-flagged the way shared numbers are. Before you pay we show what we actually know about the route — our own measurement with its sample size, a named supplier's figure, or a plain "no data yet" — and if no code arrives, you don't pay.

Every route below is one click away. Open a country to see its services, or jump straight to a service hub.