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How to Identify Calls from Unknown Phone Number?

In this post, you’ll learn how to identify calls from unknown phone number from their smart phone.

How to Identify Calls from Unknown Phone Number?

Identify Calls from Unknown Phone Number

It is always a sense of fear or panic to get a call from a number you do not recognize. If no one leaves a message, you may be unsure whether you should return the call at all. There are multiple methods to identify calls from unknown phone numbers. Let’s see each of them in detail.

Locating the Number Online

Using the search engine.

It could be of some large establishment, so if you search it online may come up in a search. You may find that a local companies and large business, such as your bank, was trying to contact you.

Using Facebook 

If you’re on Facebook, type the number into Facebook’s search bar. You may find a profile linked to the number online. This does not always work as some people’s privacy settings prevent their numbers from being linked to their profile.

Use a reverse phone lookup site. 

Search for the key word “reverse phone lookup” in a search engine, you will find a lot of sites that allow you to type a phone number in to identify the caller. Try a few of these sites to see if any of them yield helpful results.

Using Apps to Identify the Number

Use your Facebook app

 The Facebook app sometimes scans your contacts or those who’ve called you. If you search through the “People You May Know” search bar on Facebook, Facebook may have added the caller to your list.

This may not work at times due to people’s privacy settings.

Install Third-party Applications

Many third-party applications allow you to identify the callers. You can download the kind applications from your app store. Using applications like them is fully subjected to user discretion, because many of the applications work on the database (Contacts, call logs) that the users have provided them. Your phonebook may have confidential details like your ATM pin number, Bank account number etc. So the usage of such applications is completely based on your interest. True Caller is a simple example of an app that helps you to identify the unknown numbers.

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