Reverse Mobile Phone Number Search - Comments Page 1

I've had some luck just googling the number and will get links to sites that post scams and the numbers associated with them.

I usually do a web search on the number on the caller ID and see what comes up.

Most often the search result is on Who Calls Me (http://whocallsme.com/), a free site where users can log their experiences with calls from numbers. I've found it to be an excellent resource.

If I don't recognise a number I typically let it go to voice mail. Most legitimate callers will leave some sort of message.

The best I've found is freecellsearch.com which offers 10 lookups for $9.99. They also accept payment by Paypal which reassures me they won't get me on a hook and never let me go.

A number of call centres are using automatic dialling on the basis that maybe only one in ten calls will be answered. If you happen to answer a call but no-one is free to talk to you, the number will immediately hang up and not leave a message.

I save these numbers as 'SPAM' and avoided answering one of these a few days ago. Particularly frustating as I spend a lot of time abroad and it costs me money to answer calls.

When ever I've gotten those numbers on my cell - I got it for ME, not others so in 3? 4? years I've given out that number less than 10 times. So when the phone rings my special friends have one tone, then all others I have listed have a second tone, and all others have a third, so I can tell my real 'Best Friends' who only call in emergent situations - and those who I might call, can wait a bit, and the numbers I don't have listed on my phone, are lucky if I even look at them.

When I get one of those calls, I try to look up the number through google. I often see a LOT of folks have comments about not getting anything when they called back - and since I have one of those cheap plans where I pay if I call or if I am called I don't use it much.

I spend a LOT of my time in the middle of Nevada doing research where there are not only NO towers (military and US government excepted), there are no signals so most of us use over-amped 'kickers' on CB radios or FRS radios. Thus my CB 'kicks' about 200 watts on max (5 watts is max legal) and my FRS kicks about 75 watts on max.

Now MY take is 1) if you answer or call back you confirm that your number is 'active' - and 2) if you put ANY data on a site THEY say is dedicated to finding out who these bothersome folks are, they compile saleable data on you and perhaps your phone number if you are ignorant enough to enter it. (ignorance is not knowing, stupid is not wanting to learn - we are ALL ignorant but we don't have to be stupid). And at least they can track a call they made and set up a webpage to see - track you to your ISP which is roughly geographic in location - though I use a free proxy if it doesn't slow me down much. So good luck tracking me to San Jose, CA so MAYBE a neutron bomb MIGHT knock me out, and most of these folks don't have a Neutron bomb around they are 'dieing' to use to lose their entire customer base they are collecting.

MY advice is, if you don't know the number, and you are NOT expecting a call, forget it. But then I only have one DIAL up phone in my entire house and it's locked in my office so I don't have to deal with it unless I'm 'at work'. Pick-up a phone call, and no one is there, I suspect it's an auto-dialer that can tell if your phone goes to voice mail, and then you are on a 'good number' list, just like the 'please remove me' reply to spam only confirms your e-mail address as 'active', better than simply a 'valid' number.

And, as I leave, here's a thought: It's NEVER a bad idea to be alone with your Self. Like grandma always said: the primary reason she had a phone was for HER convenience, not for others, it was not bad to use it to help others and save them some time. But it's never worth running to answer if it meant a job was left undone, or you hurt yourself or others to get there first. That was before their number would be there to call back, don't answer and you can wonder forever who it was and you'll learn if it's honestly important they'll call back, and if not, they won't - and what a waist of time talking to someone who wouldn't even take the time to call you back.

But then again, most of you have never grown up rurally enough to know how 12 or 24 party lines worked - We were J-26. We had 36 people on that 'J' line. And if your folks weren't listening you could bet at least ONE of your neighbors WAS.

Privacy becomes more precious the less we have of it, or so many market economists would lead you to believe. So, become a true revolutionary: create wealth until you have so much, it's worth nothing (if you had all the money in the world, it would lose ALL it's value): don't use your phone, and watch the market on privacy first soar, then crash and burn. Burst that bubble baby! Quiet Baby Quiet!

I had an issue where I kept getting a txt mssg. from a cell number I did not recognize. After a little research and finding a ton of sites that wanted to charge me for "maybe" finding the owner, I finally found a site that was free. Although it is a little "sneaky" (but legal) it is called spy dialer (spydialer.com) you put in the number you are looking for info on and it will call that number, but will go directly to the voice mail and if the person has a voice mail message set up on their phone you will hear who the person is. Of course if they don't have a voice message set up you won't hear anything, but the price is right, and it doesn't leave them any trace of who called them.

I just discovered 800notes.com. seems like a good resource for unknown phone numbers.

After recieving numerous "missed calls" from an out of state numberon my cell, I used several "free" reverse call lookups. All I could get was it was-- a landline in Iowa. No help...but if you want to pay...thanks but no thanks.

I have a GMAIL account run by google.com. They are always asking for my cell phone number as part of my account information on their records "in case my account can't be accessed". Now why do you suppose it has to be my cell phone number verified by a google text message?

numberguru.com doesn't give you the name associated with the number for free(anymore), but people can leave comments, and lots of them tell you if it's a spammer, and who they are. When they first started, the phone app did give the name for free, and it was surprising how accurate they were.

How do you know the number you're researching is a mobile number unless you get a text from it?

My experience is that even the "free" landline reverse phone number look-up sites are not free. If anyone knows of a site that really is free please contact me at Bigplarg@aol.com. Thanks!

Does anyone have any sources for Canadian Reverse directories and reverse cel phone directories? While the sources listed in the article work quite well (reverse land lines), up here in the Great White North, we don't want to be frozen out of these types of service. Any help will help. Thanks, jamesinvictoria

We have to keep in mind that old information never disappears. Even in the old days, anyone asking to change their landline number from listed to unlisted ("non-published") would discover that the number remained in commercial databases that already had the information (as well as old phonebooks!) Similarly, if today you "port" your former landline number to your new mobile service, your cell number will effectvely be no more private that your landline had been. Just being a "cell number" does not itself confer retroactive proection or undue previous disclosure of your data.

We have to keep in mind that old information never disappears. Even in the old days, anyone asking to change their landline number from listed to unlisted ("non-published") would discover that the number remained in commercial databases that already had the information (as well as old phonebooks!) Similarly, if today you "port" your former landline number to your new mobile service, your cell number will effectvely be no more private that your landline had been. Just being a "cell number" does not itself confer retroactive protection or undue previous disclosure of your data.

what about zabasearch.com?..

I now know why we are getting many solicitations, especially recorded messages. My wife placed an ad on Craigslist and listed her name and phone number. Most people who put ads on Craigslist either use the mailbox system or they write out their phone number with one or more digits spelled out.

I get unknown calls about once a week. I never answer & receive no voice mail.
I've had good results with just looking up the number on Google. 9 out of 10 it's a seller of something or bill collector of sorts.
It's free and fairly accurate.

reverse cell phone search
http://www.reversecellphoneonline.com

Last year I purchased a subscription to reversenumberdatabase.com. In the year it was active, I used it to check every unknown caller I got. This probably was a few dozen numbers. This service was unable to identify ANY of the callers.