If you are shocked that how truecaller knows your name and want the explanation that how it happens so you are on the right place. One day you heard that your name is showing on the truecaller app and you think that i did not install any truecaller app or i am not even using any smartphone so how it happens.

Truecaller works on the give and take process. So if anybody installs the app on his smartphone to know about any number, truecaller app first ask the phone book access of the user and then the phone book data of that user is sent to the truecaller servers.



So if you did not install truecaller yet or you have not any smartphone, yet it is possible that truecaller knows your name or more information regarding your number.

So if you gave your number to your friend and he saves your number in his phone book and he has truecaller installed, then truecaller will automatically fetch that your number from your friend's mobile.

Now you are thinking it losses your privacy, may be you are thinking right. But truecaller has benefits also that is why people are installing it and truecaller app has more popular with more than 100 million downloads on google play store.

Truecaller Benefits:

Truecaller determines the spam calls or fraud calls comes daily on your mobile number and can automatically blocked that number. Trucaller now days have large amount of spam calls data and According to The Hindu report on 19th Dec 2017, truecaller has 40 Million spam numbers.