DracoFelis
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Re: [Other] Reverse phone number
said by dcurrey  :Without getting into why but I need to do a reverse phone lookup of a number. Anyone have any recommendations best site to use? The free ones only give the carrier name and city. I just use google (fast and "free"). If the number is on any public web page (including forum posts) indexed by google, out will pop the web page (or web pages), which will often tell you exactly who the number belongs to.
For example, if I didn't already know that 1-800-569-6972 was an at&t prepaid phone card, I could easily find that info out by doing a google of: 800-569-6972
(i.e. put the number into google using the "aaa-nnn-nnnn" format)
And you get this result:
»www.google.com/search?q=800-569-6972
NOTE:
While google doesn't always give a business for a given number, it's amazing how often it does. I've sometimes used this little trick to figure out who is trying to call us, based upon the number on my phone's callerID. If it's someone we care about, we might call them back. But if a google search shows some marketing company (or worse yet, finds forum posts complaining about fraud coming from that phone number), they never hear from us again!
NOTE: Yes, we are on the "do not call list" (at least we were the last time I checked). However, in part due to to all the loopholes in the DNC list, that only cuts down on annoying marketing calls, it doesn't eliminate them entirely... |
