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Cameroon

Central Africa · XAF (FCFA) · dial code +237 · French, English

Overview of IdentifyOrg in Cameroon →

Local currency

XAF

Phone numbers

+237671234567

National ID

CNI (Carte nationale d'identité): coming

Available in Cameroon

• ✓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 Cameroon. 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: CNI (Carte nationale d'identité) verification

A Cameroon-specific identity check against the CNI (Carte nationale d'identité) (DGSN) is planned. Until it launches, you can verify people in Cameroon with document OCR, liveness and face match, which work with any passport, national ID or driver's licence photo.

Prices in XAF

Your balance is held in naira. Prices below are converted at ₦2.2832 per XAF, rounded up. Top-ups in XAF are credited at the same rate.

Phone number format

Cameroon mobile numbers are written locally as 6 71 23 45 67 and internationally as +237671234567. There is no national 0 prefix to remove; we add +237 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": "+237671234567" }'

# 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": "671234567", "country": "CM" }'

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: "671234567", country: "CM" }), // or phone: "+237671234567"
});
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": "+237671234567"},
)
verification_id = r.json()["id"]

Topping up your balance

Card payments and mobile money (MTN MoMo, Orange Money) in XAF, 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 Cameroon is governed by the Law on personal data protection (2024). Phone verification stores only a salted hash of each code; check your own obligations as the data controller.