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You don’t need to know the “contact name” of a spam caller, algorithms when reporting spam should work just on the number and so when it calls you, it should just show a Probably Spam flag, nothing about the identity unless of course the caller has given their consent to provide that info.


This seems to be how it works in the most recent version of Android and it serves me very well.

If it's suspected spam it will tell me (I can also report spam calls). If it's a business listed with Google Places it will show the business name.




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