Abstract: An apparatus for verifying the identity of a receiver of a facsimile including a display adapted to receive a numeric signal and further depict numbers which the numeric signal represents. Also included is a numeric keypad with a plurality of number keys for transmitting a numeric signal representative of a plurality of numbers upon the depression of corresponding number keys. Further provided is an alarm indicator adapted to alert a user upon the receipt of an alarm indicator signal. Finally, control circuitry is electrically connected to the display, the keypadeipt of an and the alarm indicator. In use, both a receiver and a sender of a facsimile have an apparatus as set forth hereinabove. The control circuitry of the receiver has a receipt mode wherein the control circuitry is adapted to transmit to the alarm indicator the alarm indicator signal upon the receipt of an initialization signal, preferably in the form of a phone call.