What's a good tool for discovering who owns a certain phone number? I received a suspected spam/catfish text and all the typical sites can tell me is that this number is a VOIP line in Jersey City, not previously reported as malicious.

Sure, I could just block them. But where's the fun in that?

@voltronic Twilio's Lookup service is about the least-scummy option I've come across, particularly if I want to avoid those "people finder" sites.

twilio.com/en-us/user-authenti

Not free, but $0.015 to get carrier and (where available) caller information for each number isn't going to break my piggy bank.

@voltronic That said, there's usually not much more you can find out about a VOIP number, which I guess is one of the things that makes them so attractive to spammers and scammers.

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@john_b @voltronic oh didn't know about that look up from them 👍

Google is apparently gonna add a phone number look up service direct from the default dialer app

counter.social/@ecksmc/1122271

Most likely pixels will see the feature before it rolls out to all Android - that's if it does roll out for all

Phunter can also help look up numbers

github.com/N0rz3/Phunter

@ecksmc @voltronic Hmm, sounds like the Google feature is literally just performing a Google search for the number. That was reasonably useful ~5 years ago when you could generally rely upon it to identify a business that was calling you, but SEO has ruined the web so such searches now generally just return website with lists of numbers.

I'll check out Phunter though!

@john_b @ecksmc
Something like Phunter is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

Come to find out I already had this bookmarked from another time, but never installed it.

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