A call from a Unknown number Always raise the same issue. Will it be a call from spam Or, worse, related to some type of scam? There are several ways to determine it, With and without the help of third -party appswhich is what we are going to explain in this article, whether you have a iPhone Like a phone Androidalthough in the first case, the options are more limited.
If you have an iPhone, you need a third -party app
The operating system of Apple allows mute the calls of numbers that you have not saved on the contact agenda, but It does not identify themso that, if you active it, you may leave out calls that can become of your interest.
The most popular app for these needs is Truecaller. Developed by the Swedish company True Scandinavia AB Softwarefounded on 2009 by Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalamaccumulate more than 1,000 million of downloads in the rival store, Google Play, and an assessment of 4.5/5 by users.
Truecaller identifies calls from unknown numbers Showing the name and, when possible, the calling the call. Also Block associated numbers with telemarketing, scams and other unwanted calls, based on reports from your user community, and allows you to perform Inverse searches of telephone numbers to identify the owner and determine whether it is associated with spam or fraud activities. It is free, with purchase options in the app, and is a safe value for these purposes that you have available in the App Store.
Native Android options to identify unknown numbers and spam
Android has two functions to protect users against unwanted calls: The call identifier and the spam call filter. The first is activated by default, but not the second, and allows to see information about the people or companies that call you and whose numbers do not appear on the contact agenda, are unknown.
Google does not access the user’s contact list, but with these activated functions Yes receive information about calls to determine whether it is spam or not. Android call identification shows the name of companies and services that have a file in Google My Businessthe Google service for which companies and businesses appear in Google Mapsand various directories. The user sees on the screen the name of the company from which a call comes and decides whether he is interested in responding or not.
The spam call filter must be User activated so that in your terminal the commercial calls and unwanted voice messages stop entering. They are registered In the call history, where the number and time of the call will appear next to a warning icon and the call qualifier spam. To activate these options, you must follow these steps:
- Open the app Phone On your mobile.
- Play on the icon of More options (The three vertical points), select Settings And then Call and spam identifier.
- Make sure the option See call identifier and spam It is activated.
- Active Filter spam calls.
If you enter any call that Google does not identify as spam, you can communicate with these steps:
- Open the app Phone.
- Touches in Recent at the bottom.
- Keep pressed The phone number you want to report.
- In the drop -down menu, it is Block or mark as spam.
A couple of tricks to know who is calling you
Another way of knowing who is calling you is to resort to WhatsApp. If you keep the unknown number you have called you on your contact agenda and then open WhatsApp, You can see your profile picture And, perhaps, find out who it is and if you are interested in that call or not.
You can also perform a search on Google. There are several web services such as listspam.com that collect users’ reports on the unknown telephone numbers they call them. If it is spam, it is very likely that the search engine returns results corresponding to websites of this type with information about the number.