Find out the owner of a phone number?

jmmbacon · Post by **jmmbacon** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:37 pm

Does anyone know of a way to find out the owner of a cell phone if you know their number? I see many sites for reverse lookups for cell phones but they charge almost 100 bucks.

All of the free reverse phone number sites have a fee after you put in the phone number. Anywho.com or whitepages.com or any of that stuff does not work since you have to pay to get a report.

Are there any ACTUAL free ones out there?

sleepyWI · Post by **sleepyWI** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:26 pm

good luck ..... we had lots of trouble with a certain number calling us late at night on weekends. The phone companies would not help and the reverse lookup engines did not help either (although I refused to pay the $100 which I figured would go for nothing). One thing I tried was to type the phone number into Google and I got the name of a business! I then reported this to the FCC via their website as an abusive telemarketer and in two weeks the calls stopped.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:38 pm

Can't you just ring them (back) and find out?

Bogof · Post by **Bogof** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:39 pm

Whoops, yes that was me.

Stefernie · Post by **Stefernie** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:17 pm

Anonymous wrote:Can't you just ring them (back) and find out?

That sounds like fun.

jennmary · Post by **jennmary** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:29 pm

lol....That does sound like fun.

Patrick A · Post by **Patrick A** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:34 am

Caller ID ??

yosemitelor · Post by **yosemitelor** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:57 am

here is a link to a reverse phone directory that gives you basic info for no charge - it is not always up to date tho - but accurate most of time

http://www.whitepages.com/

good luck!

zzzzzz!! · Post by **zzzzzz!!** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:04 am

Anonymous wrote:Can't you just ring them (back) and find out?

I don't know about elsewhere, but here in France there's a scam going on where someone rings your cell phone and hangs up right away. If you call the number back, when you get your bill you discover that it was charged much more than a regular call.

So, ring them back at your own risk!

oceanpearl · Post by **oceanpearl** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:37 am

Try Googling the number, but never keep a police whistle of air horn around the phone to blast at them!

Patrick A · Post by **Patrick A** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:37 am

oceanpearl wrote:Try Googling the number, but never keep a police whistle of air horn around the phone to blast at them!

Good Idea but how about one of thesehttp://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/st ... assNum=154

I bet they would never call back.

tillymarigold · Post by **tillymarigold** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:29 am

Patrick A wrote:Caller ID ??

Caller ID doesn't work on cell phone numbers, does it? I've only ever had it come in saying "WIRELESS CALLER," I've never once seen caller ID give the name of the cell phone's owner (the obvious exception being if they called my cell phone and I'd pre-programmed the number, but it doesn't work with numbers I don't already have saved).

oceanpearl · Post by **oceanpearl** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:30 am

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birdshell · Post by **birdshell** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:01 pm

On my cell phone, there is a caller-ID-like feature that works only for numbers I have entered into my phone list.

Stefernie · Post by **Stefernie** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:49 pm

jennmary wrote:lol....That does sound like fun.

You hoochie. I want your machine.

I only have an Escape. I'm jelos.

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Find out the owner of a phone number?

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