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 I also would like to know.
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@0x56
Good point.
@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.
https://www.twilio.com/en-us/user-authentication-identity/lookup
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.
@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
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112227188416999975
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
@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!
@voltronic Most spam calls spoof the outgoing number now, making reverse lookup useless.
Duh. I'm sure the reason I'm not finding out anything more is that this is a burner number.