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Cabo Verde

West Africa · CVE (Esc) · dial code +238 · Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole

Local currency

CVE

Phone numbers

+2389912345

National ID

Cartão Nacional de Identificação: coming

Available in Cabo Verde

• ✓Phone verification (SMS OTP)
• ✓SMS and bulk SMS
• ✓Document OCR and verification
• ✓Liveness detection
• ✓Face match
• ✓Address verification
• ✓Verification Suite (applicant links and embed)
• ✓Website audit
• ✓Domain verification
• ✓AI content detection
• ✓Video and voice calls
• ✓Live streaming
• ✓Chat
• ✓WhatsApp assistant and platform
• ✓File tools (PDF, images, audio)
• ✓Short links
• ✓QR codes
• ✓Video meetings

Nigeria only

These read Nigerian identity, banking and utility records, so they do not work for Cabo Verde. Calling them for another country returns 403 not_available_in_country:

• ●BVN verification
• ●NIN verification
• ●Driver's licence (FRSC)
• ●Bank account name check
• ●BVN to account match
• ●CAC business registry check
• ●Credit bureau score
• ●Bills (airtime, data, electricity, TV)
• ●Business payment gateway (collections)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_available_in_country",
    "message": "BVN verification is only available for Nigeria. ...",
    "status": 403
  }
}

Coming: Cartão Nacional de Identificação verification

A Cabo Verde-specific identity check against the Cartão Nacional de Identificação (Ministry of Justice) is planned. Until it launches, you can verify people in Cabo Verde with document OCR, liveness and face match, which work with any passport, national ID or driver's licence photo.

Prices in CVE

Your balance is held in naira. Prices below are converted at ₦13.5826 per CVE, rounded up. Top-ups in CVE are credited at the same rate.

Phone number format

Cabo Verde mobile numbers are written locally as 991 23 45 and internationally as +2389912345. There is no national 0 prefix to remove; we add +238 in front of what you send.

curl -X POST https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start \
  -H "X-IdentifyOrg-Key: io_live_xxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "phone": "+2389912345" }'

# The same number in local format needs the country:
curl -X POST https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start \
  -H "X-IdentifyOrg-Key: io_live_xxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "phone": "9912345", "country": "CV" }'

const res = await fetch("https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "X-IdentifyOrg-Key": process.env.IDENTIFYORG_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ phone: "9912345", country: "CV" }), // or phone: "+2389912345"
});
const { id } = await res.json(); // then POST /v1/phone/verify/check with { id, code }

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start",
    headers={"X-IdentifyOrg-Key": os.environ["IDENTIFYORG_KEY"]},
    json={"phone": "+2389912345"},
)
verification_id = r.json()["id"]

Topping up your balance

Card payments in CVE, converted to your naira balance at the rate shown when you pay. Provider availability is set per country, and cards in US dollars are the fallback where a local-currency option is not open yet.

Data protection

Personal data in Cabo Verde is governed by the Data protection law (CNPD). Phone verification stores only a salted hash of each code; check your own obligations as the data controller.