If you plan to use LINE for making friends or marketing, you must first have one or even multiple LINE accounts, which we often refer to as marketing LINE accounts. In this article, Teacher Mantou will share with you all possible methods to apply for a LINE account.
Currently, LINE Corporation allows applications for LINE accounts using two identities: the first identity is having a mobile phone number, and the second is having a Facebook account. (Update: LINE Corporation prohibited the use of Facebook accounts to apply for LINE accounts in 2020)
If you want to search for or add friends using a phone number in LINE, you must apply for a LINE account using a mobile phone number (the number must be able to receive SMS verification codes, but it does not need to be applied for on the phone itself). A LINE account applied with a mobile phone can also search for and add friends using a user ID.
You can rent a mobile phone from telecom operators in Taiwan or other countries and then apply for a LINE account with this number. The current telecom operators in Taiwan include Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile, Far EasTone, Asia Pacific Telecom, and Taiwan Star.
When applying, LINE will send a verification code via SMS to the number you enter (it does not need to have a physical SIM card). Please enter the received SMS verification code within the valid period in the LINE desktop software or mobile version, and once verified, you can log in normally or send messages to friends.
Mobile phone numbers are divided into "monthly rental mobile phone numbers" and "prepaid mobile phone numbers (prepaid cards)". If the number is only used to apply for a LINE account (to receive verification SMS), without other purposes, purchasing a prepaid card is more cost-effective. However, be aware that some telecom operators' prepaid cards have an expiration date, and if you do not recharge before the expiration, usage will be forcibly suspended.
Real estate agencies often post small advertisements on telephone poles or walls, and the phone numbers used in these ads are often purchased privately from telecom shops. These are mobile phone numbers that can evade the Environmental Protection Agency's inspections (some are applied using migrant workers' accounts). You can privately ask telecom shops if they have cheaper mobile phone numbers for sale; it is said that telecom shops have channels to apply for such phone numbers and sell them at low prices for profit.
When using the LINE automatic mining robot, we also found that many consecutive mobile phone numbers in Taiwan are filled with Thai, Indonesian, or Filipino names, indicating that these numbers are indeed more common and easier to obtain than expected.
Another cost-effective method of having a mobile phone number is to purchase an international mobile number online. Currently, many companies have set up websites to provide similar services, where you can directly buy mobile phone numbers through their websites. Notably, these numbers are only used for sending and receiving verification SMS, allowing you to log into their websites and receive SMS messages. Even without a physical SIM card, you can receive LINE's SMS verification codes using this method.
In addition to applying for a LINE account with a mobile phone, using Facebook to apply for a LINE account is currently the only good way to obtain a LINE account without spending money. You can first apply for a free email address, then use this email to create a Facebook account, and finally use the Facebook account to apply for a LINE account.
When applying, LINE will automatically send a verification code to the email you used to create your Facebook account. You must check your email for the verification code and then enter it in LINE to log in normally or send messages to friends.
Unfortunately, LINE accounts applied through Facebook can only search for friends using the user ID in the LINE app and cannot use phone numbers to search for friends. However, when you have an automated friend-adding robot to replace manual adding, this unfortunate limitation becomes trivial!
Instead of giving you fish to eat, let’s teach you how to fish! Using LINE marketing definitely requires you to have many LINE accounts, but spending money to buy accounts has risks; if the accounts are banned, you'll still need to spend money to purchase again. We have found that the more LINE accounts you have, the faster and more powerful your marketing becomes. Is there a method in the world that allows us to continuously create marketing LINE accounts? The answer is yes! After nearly a year of research and experimentation by our marketing robot development team, we invented a method that allows for the continuous generation of a large number of LINE accounts 24 hours a day.
Although the creation process is a bit complex, to make it easy for you to learn, we recorded the operation screen into a tutorial video, allowing you to practice step by step online. After having our part-time workers watch the video and learn until they are proficient, they tested that creating one LINE account can be completed in 6 minutes. We believe you can do it too!
By the way, friends who have taken this course asked if the LINE accounts I generate can be sold on auction websites. Why not?
Another effortless yet costly way to have a LINE account is to visit shopping auction websites, such as Shopee, Ruten, 8591 Treasure Trading Network, Taobao, etc., to find stores or sellers selling LINE accounts and directly purchase a LINE account. This method carries certain risks, but remember what your economics teacher taught: where there is demand, there will be supply. If you don't want to spend time generating LINE accounts, you need to spend money to buy accounts that others have spent time creating.