Fake Contacts

Fake Contacts is an Android application for creating artificial entries in a phone’s contacts database. Its purpose is data poisoning: adding contact records that are not real personal relationships, so that address-book data contains noise rather than only meaningful information. This can be relevant for users who study how apps, services, or data brokers handle contact lists.

The application is published by Bill Dietrich under the MIT license. It is focused on generating fake contacts, not on managing a complete address book, synchronizing contacts between providers, or replacing the default contacts application. Its usefulness depends on whether the user specifically wants extra contact records for obfuscation or testing.