Whoscall
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Whoscall is a mobile application that offers caller identification services. It was developed by Gogolook Co., Ltd., a listed company in Taiwan. The function of Whoscall is to identify incoming calls, detect scam/harassment numbers, and filter spam text messages, blocking them accordingly. Its name is derived from a shorter version of the phrase “Who is calling?“.[citation needed] The app currently has over 100 million users, 2.6 billion phone number entries, 25 billion identified number & SMS, and is available in 31 countries/regions, including Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Brazil. The application owns the largest number database in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Whoscall is also the strategic partner of several governmental agencies in their anti-fraud efforts, including the National Police Agency (Taiwan), the Financial Supervisory Service (South Korea), Fukuoka City Government., Police Cyber Taskforce (Thailand) the Malaysia police and state government.
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Developer(s) | Gogolook Co., Ltd. |
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Initial release | August, 2010 |
Operating system | Android, Windows Phone, iOS |
Available in | English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Hindi |
Type | Caller ID, Telephone Directory, Spam Filtering, Fraud Protection |
License | Proprietary |
Website | whoscall |