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Have you tried the app TrueCaller? It basically does what you are doing manually except searching a crowdsourced database of numbers. I'm not affiliated with t

• manojlds 10y ago
  +1 - I use it and it has been very very useful. This despite concerns that contacts are shared for them to build their crowd sourced data, I am totally fine with it.
  • voltagex_ 10y ago
    The thing that worries me when an app wants (all?) my contacts is: are all my contacts also happy about their number being shared? When I give my number to someone, I am aware that my number is going to end up with Facebook/Snapchat/LINE/whatever but does everyone think like this?
• kyriakos 10y ago
  thats one of the best apps I have on my phone. use it all the time. we recently had an election here and the amount of spam calls from candidate campaigners and election polls was crazy. truecaller saved me! (I also go to report the ones that fell through)
• danjc 10y ago
  TrueCaller has been great for me and I believe services like this could kill telemarketing overnight. I haven't given them access to my contacts yet though so I end up looking up numbers in the app. Loathe to give this information to yet another vendor yet back when I joined WhatsApp I didn't even consider the privacy implication. Illustrates the heightened awareness of privacy we have now.