[hk__2]

> Not quite as alarming as these people most likely trying to stalk someone without their permission.

It’s so common to want to know where does a incoming call come from that it’s built-in in iOS. It has nothing to do with stalking, just with guessing if who’s calling you is a scammer or a company trying to sell you stuff.

[cjbgkagh]

It’s pretty simple to look up the location of a phone number issuance, you can get a map or table that does this. I guess these people want the current physical location of the mobile phone. Either way these are not customers you’d want.

Edit: reading the blog post from the same company listed above, it is indeed people using an external API for what is an incredibly simple country code. It is a shame that programming has come to this and that ChatGPT continues to propagate it. One way they could solve the problem would be to provide sample code that does the same thing using a built in table without using their API service. Sure it’s work but not much will get ppl off your back asap.

[simonw]

I'm willing to bet people asking ChatGPT to help them resolve a phone number to a location are much more likely to be stalkers than people who are trying to identify spam calls.