How to Find Out an Unknown Caller's Number and Name

It is kind of uneasy and cause of mind confusing to see an incoming call from an unknown caller or anonymous number especially when you missed answering it. This nuisance is negatively affecting and embarrassing you because you can't be able to respond to a missed call from a hidden number. 

Some unknown callers are intentionally hiding their identity in order not to be recognized, perhaps they do it for genuine reasons, but one may conceal his identity to plan a bad action against you.

You may receive an unwelcome life-threatening call from mysterious intruders hiding behind the door, posing a life threat against you, in that case, you would want to find out the actual personality whose intent was to do harmful deeds against you.

This article is rich with helpful guides for finding out an unknown caller's name and number and any anonymous person who you are looking forward to knowing. 

How to find an unknown caller's ID.

Here we specify employing a True Caller application method with an extra explanation because it is characterized by its simplicity and is easy to access, furthermore, you can use its free version to access many interesting features which we are going to mention soon.

1. Using True Caller to uncover unknown caller Number and Name

The best and simple way to find out an unknown caller's number and name is by using the True Caller app. This is the most popular and utilizable means of identifying an anonymous caller's ID.

This app when installed on a phone not only displays the incoming call ID but also includes the oldest call history in a user's phone.

If you want to know the facts of any uncredited incoming calls, and the previous call histories from your phone just install this application on your mobile phone for free and it will automatically start working.

It is available for download in the Google play store and app store for both Android and iOS users.

You can upgrade to premium If you want to enjoy some advanced features like "advanced spam blocking, who viewed my profile, and unlimited contact requests".

What a true caller app can do for you

This mobile app is not only targeted for a single purpose but also there were so many other things you can do with it for your security including:

1. Unmasking caller's ID.

2. Uncover the unknown number and name.

3. Identify the caller's location.

4. Block unwanted calls.

5. Block hidden numbers.

6. Contacts back up: you can use the true caller to Back up your contacts, call history, messages, blocked calls, media, and video attachments to Google Drive, then you can access it any time you need.

7. Video caller ID: this displays your short video to phone book contacts on their incoming call.

8. Call alert notification: if you "enabled" this option you would get a notification when someone is about to call you.

9. Miss call reminder: it reminds you when you forget to reply to missed calls. 

10. It is used to send messages to the group as individual messages.

11. you can use the true caller to secure all your messages by setting a 4-digit pass cord and fingerprint. 

12. Block numbers from a particular foreign country.

13. If you want, you can use this app to block numbers that are not in your phone book list.

14. Block top spammers and "protect yourself from calls and messages from the most reported numbers"

15. Manual blocking: in this, you can choose to block a specific number;

Or prevent a particular name from sending you messages;

Or preclude a specific country (by selecting the country code you won't receive any call from a such country);

Or you can choose to preclude any number that starts with specific numerics, for example, you can set not to receive a call from any number starting with 123.

16. You can select the way true caller blocks calls ( either reject automatically or ring your phone silently).

17. You can select whether to receive notifications for blocked calls and messages or not.

You may want to read How to recover deleted or lost contacts Using Facebook or Gmail

Alternative ways for identifying an unknown callers ID 

1. Search on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms.

If you want to uncover an unknown caller ID just type the number in a search bar of different social platforms especially Facebook and hunt it, if the owner has an account linked with it you could see his profile details and recognize him easily.

Or simply add the number to your phone book list with an anonymous name and search it in WhatsApp or Telegram, if he linked it to anyone, you could see his name and profile pictures.

2. Google search 

just type the number in your browser's search bar and proceed to search. This search is universal as it covers the whole social media platforms and other related places where the number could be linked to.

There are other means to uncover an unknown caller, some are free while others are payable like:

1. Been verified (website and app);

2. Caller Id name and location; 

3. Eyecon caller ID and spam block;

4. Trap call;

and many more depending on your country and region.

3. Your network provider 

Sometimes you might try out all the methods without any positive results this usually happens when the caller didn't legally use the SIM card and bypass his country's policy in using SIM card because almost all countries now did not authorize using SIM cards without user registering it with his personal and reachable information. 

And maybe you are receiving some life threat or security breach upfront from an unwelcome person, in such a situation you can hurriedly contact your network provider for urgent help under certain conditions.

The network providers were among the most authentic authorities helping in finding out unknown caller numbers and names as they even document all the call histories that occur. 

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