Surely more than once you have received calls on your smartphone from numbers that you do not have in your phonebook, and you don't know whether to answer or not. It can be advertising or commercial calls from telephone companies, insurance, or to subscribe to a service.
They are very annoying calls, and they are not always made from the same number, but they are called from different numbers by the same company. Something that is very heavy, and sometimes they tend to be quite annoying, not to mention when they make calls at odd hours.
So today let's see how to identify those calls. If your phone does not have this application natively and make sure who is calling you, thus avoid wasting time with operators or even data theft due to those pernicious calls.
Methods to know who is calling us
Apps to see who's calling you
Among the different methods that we are going to see today to find out who is behind those numbers that we do not know, and that call us insistently We are going to start using the applications that we can find in the Google Play Store.
There are many that will help us to have some peace of mind when rejecting or simply not answering those unknown numbers. Therefore we go with the first application of a very interesting list.
True Caller
We begin with one of the best-known applications on the market, and that is that True caller has more than fourteen million downloads. Thanks to it we can identify calls, sms and even block those numbers that we do not want to bother us anymore.
This app saves a list of numbers identified as SPAM, updated daily thanks to the users themselves who identify those numbers that you do not have in your agenda and they can make calls to your phone. Obviously, in order to use it, we must grant it enough permissions, and it will remain active in the background, with the consequent battery consumption.
Something normal if we want to be able to use it and be safe from receiving unwanted calls, since you will need to access your agenda. You must give him permission to manage and make calls, or send and be able to read sms, since if a number identified as advertising or suspected of spam calls us, you can recognize it as such and notify us on the screen of this when the phone rings.
In addition to these options, the application includes others such as chatting with friends and family directly From True Caller, you can record calls, make backup copies of both the messages and the contacts in your calendar.
This application It has three modes: Basic, Premium and Gold. Each of them offers more options to the user, it all depends on what you want to spend. As you can see in the image they include options such as no ads, caller ID and customer support. Options that you must weigh as a user if they are necessary or not.
Who's Calling?
With this app called Who's Calling? we can know who is hiding behind that number that calls us and we do not know his identity. In the same way, it is able to identify received text messages. And something that stands out above the others is that it is compatible with Facebook Messenger or even WhatsApp.
This means that if you receive a message in these applications owned by Zuckelberg, and you do not know the number that this magnificent application writes you It will be able to inform you if it is spam or it is not and you can answer if you want.
It is able to read the name of the caller, if you have it in your agenda, or it will show the number notifying if advertising is possible, if you wish you can deactivate contacts or rename them through the app to identify them even better. If your phone does not have any of these options, you can configure them with the app to regulate the voice volume according to the tone volume.
Even simulate incoming calls or messages, mute the phone by turning it, or activate a test mode to simulate text messages or incoming calls, activate different alerts with Bluetooth activated and connected to a device or speaker and it will announce the name or number that is calling. In this way you will not need to have the phone nearby or accessible to know who is calling or writing you. Obviously for this you must have the volume activated and you can create different alerts in that mode.
CallApp: Caller ID and Recorder
With this new app you will be able to know who is calling you, block those unwanted calls and even set up your own spam list. It has a database in which a multitude of numbers identified as spam are collected, and a caller ID to know who may be calling you.
Thanks to the application you can block the identity of your number, and know how to call with a hidden number, if you want to use this option. Among other things you can record calls automatically, with good quality and save them in formats compatible with any Android phone, which makes it easy to send the files.
It also has options with which to identify calls or even block those numbers, report those numbers that are advertising by adding them to the black list. But thanks to its Truecaller ID, which consists of a complete contact identifier in addition to showing you who is calling It allows you to see photos or information that you have registered in social networks or different information.
The best thing about this application is that it relates the phone numbers to the different social networks associated with it, including WhatsApp, Viber, etc.
If you wish, with this app You can change the image of your own contact, and even the information that you want to appear regarding your number, Personalizing your directory and caller ID has never been easier. You can also use the call recorder with different themes, even add video or sounds to your liking.
Ultimately, you decide if you want to answer that call or not thanks to the information that the application gives us when our smartphone rings.
Websites to identify unknown numbers
Another of the most common ways to find out who owns that unknown number that calls us so insistently is go to specialized websites in this. There are different websites that are dedicated to this task for our peace of mind, and many users write their own experiences with these numbers.
Among the websites that we can go to, we will refer to those that are in Spanish and have a simple form of use.
Who called me
It is a database very easy to access and use, since as you can see you just have to enter the phone number that called you and thanks to the fact that it is made up of different websites, it gives us the information we wanted.
Works like an old phone book in which the numbers are collected from those unwanted or unknown users. Thanks to it we can identify the numbers used by marketing companies, or companies that sell their products, since each user can add their experience.
We can forget about calls that only want to carry out surveys, suspicious contests, fake calls, automatic numbering, telephone harassment and the like, thus being able to save in the agenda or directly block that particular number and not be disturbed any more.
Spam Lists
Another alternative in Spanish is Listaspam, a totally free service, for which you do not need to register, and through which we can perform reverse searches, that is, we can find who owns that phone number or what company, and thus know the true intentions of those calls that we do not want to receive.
It houses one of the best telemarketing and spam business directories in Spain and Latin America, since it has a registry of over 1 million phone spam numbers in more than 30 identified countries. Thanks to the experience of the users and to this website that is constantly fed with them, we have a complete directory of unwanted telephones.
It has an application for smartphonesIn case you are interested, it is more convenient than going to a computer and searching the web at all times, we leave it here:
You can download it for free. And thus know whether to answer or return the call to unknown numbers since you will always know who is on the other end of the phone line. They have more than 9 years of experience so you can trust them.
tellows
As in the previous ones, when accessing tellows we meet a simple a search engine in which we can enter the phone number we want to know and when pressing the «enter» key or in the magnifying glass, all the comments that have been added regarding that numbering will appear at the bottom.
An interesting feature is that at the top of our screen, in the right margin we can use the option to change the country, and a broad list of the countries it contains, and the prefixes they have, will be displayed.
We too offers its free application with which we can instantly access the information that we need, and thus report the calls that deserve it and that unknown numbers do not bother us anymore.
Yes, you read it right, thanks to the WhatsApp application we can know who has called us. Since if we do not want to go to a website or install third-party applications, which must be granted too many permissions, we can resort to other similar methods that will surely be useful.
It may take a little longer to carry them out, but we will get really good results, and even we can find out some additional information, and find out who the person is on the other end of the phone or if it is a spam phone call.
Just We must save the number in our phone book and then we only have to go to the WhatsApp application and in the contacts section, or with the magnifying glass, look for that number with the name that we have assigned to it.
If it appears to us, it is that it is a private user, to which we can add that If you have not configured the privacy correctly, we will be able to see your profile photo and your personal information that you have provided in that profile, with this we can obtain indications of who the person making the calls may be and decide if we want to contact them or not.
Thus remember to configure your privacy in WhatsApp and your account information correctly, to remain thus oblivious to prying eyes at any time.
ID phone
Finally we are going to add an extra method so that you can know who is calling you, and if it is spam or not. It's just a matter of adding the Google Phone app - Caller ID and antispam. With it you can configure which numbers are spam or unwanted, and even enjoy its database that will allow you to see in real time, when receiving a call, a warning if it is spam or not.
Thanks to the caller ID available in this application and by extension Google, we can see the name and even the logo of the company if it is available. Something very useful since at first glance we will identify a multitude of interesting data.
The best of all is that we will be able to know if the company that calls us from that unknown number has been verified by google or not.
Therefore, If we are receiving a call from a suspicious or unusual number, this Google application will inform us of everything and thus avoid scares, or wasted time with spam calls. In short, this Google caller ID gives us the option of knowing who is hiding on the other side of that phone number and knowing if it is a reliable company or not.
The best thing is to have all the possible help and benefit from the Google giant database to have the necessary information and Decide whether to answer a phone call with confidence.