Often we receive calls from unknown numbers. Sometimes these are harmless mistakes, but it can also come from real scammers who only want to harm us by inflating our phone bill to get rich on our backs. Want to find the authors of these disturbing calls? It is quite possible thanks to the application that we are going to reveal to you today. It will tell you the exact location of the caller and even their name or the company they represent.
What is an unknown phone number?
An unknown phone number is a phone number that is not in your contact list or that you do not recognize. It could be a call from someone or a business you don’t know.
There can be several reasons why someone is calling with an unknown number. It could be a prospecting or advertising call, or it could be someone you know but has changed their phone number and is not yet in your contact list.
It is recommended not to answer a call from an unknown phone number, especially if you suspect it might be a scam or unwanted call. If you decide to answer anyway, be careful and don’t give the caller any personal or financial information.
Receiving an unknown call – Source: spm
As luck would have it, some companies always choose the most inopportune time to make their calls. This is called “telephone spam”: it involves bombarding users with calls from an unknown number. Generally, these companies aim to attract new customers. Except that disturbing them at mealtimes or naptime is not necessarily the best marketing strategy.
Many times, thinking it’s an important call, even though you don’t recognize the number, you have no choice but to pick up. How frustrating to realize that this is only a commercial call. It can even be very upsetting for some, especially if they were very busy at the time. It’s all the more disturbing when, on the phone, the seller insists on describing his products to you.
How to guard against this kind of annoyance? To identify the origin of calls with an unknown number, we advise you to download the “Truecaller” application. It’s free, easy to use and available on iOS and Android. This platform is based on “Crowd Sourcing”, that is to say that it retrieves its information from the mobiles of those who download it. In other words, it copies the entire phone book. After copying user data, currently 500 million people, the application makes it all available to you the second you are called by an unknown number that is not in your mobile phone’s memory.
The major advantage of “Truecaller” is that you will have immediate access to the location and name of the person or company calling you. You will be able to filter out all those that do not interest you. Apart from disruptive calls, you will also be able to avoid all the scammers who contact you from abroad to steal your money with premium rate calls.
Dial a phone number – Source: spm
But by the way, do you know how to call someone anonymously? Sometimes, in certain contexts, you do not want to display your number for personal reasons or simply to hide your contact details. If you want to make a call to a hidden number, you can do it in a very simple way. Just type #31# just before dialing the number.
For Android OS users, there is yet another nifty method: you can hide your number by going to the settings, specifically the caller ID tab. Here you can activate the option “Hide the number” and it will no longer appear during your calls. In the same way, you can deactivate this option at any time.
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