Posts Tagged ‘reverse phone lookup’

Whose Phone Number Is This?

Posted by Andrew on November 15th, 2009

I will never forget the time my wife found a slip of paper in the pocket of my suit coat and waved it under my nose demanding, “Whose phone number is this?”

We had been married only a year and while I was completely happy with my wife, I had been oblivious to the stress she had been going through the previous few months.  I had started a new job in a new city and we’d moved away from our family and friends.  While I was busy beyond belief, she was miserable and trying to hide that fact.  When she stumbled on the phone number, her mind went into panic mode.

We got through that incident when I was very easily able to prove to her that the number was that of an associate at work who suggested we get together for a game of golf but I know that this particular scenario continues to be played out in homes across the United States every day.

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Can I Locate Someone by Mobile Phone?

Posted by Andrew on November 15th, 2009

My 15 year old daughter has a cell phone and has started to receive calls from a number with which she is unfamiliar.  As a parent, this is incredibly troubling.  This only came up when she asked me the other day, “Dad, can I locate someone by mobile phone?”

I was not immediately aware what she was after but once I asked a few questions it became obvious that somehow her cell phone number had either sprung up on some list somewhere, someone was repeatedly calling a wrong number, or someone was intentionally trying to bother my daughter.

I was very concerned that it was that last option.  The first few times the mobile number popped up on her phone, she answered it unknowingly and the person hung up on her.

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How to Match a Phone Number to a Person

Posted by Andrew on November 15th, 2009

People will tell you all kinds of ways on how to match a phone number to a person.  The steps are very simple but websites all over the internet would have you chasing your tail to complete the task.  These tips make it easy and keep the costs as low as possible.

First, exhaust all the free methods and by free I mean the use internet search engines to see what you might dig up.  You would be surprised at what occasionally gets stored on the web.

Resumes, advertisements, forum posts, industry presentations and other documents are sometimes stored on the website in such a fashion as to make their text – including any listed names and phone numbers – available on the internet.  Because it’s free, it should absolutely be the first place you look.  Last year, a search of an old phone number of mine actually resulted in a Google map to my old house.  That was a bit intimidating, to say the least.

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Reverse Phone Detective Review

Posted by Andrew on November 15th, 2009

Reverse Phone Detective is a reverse phone lookup service that offers more information than competitors and claims to be able to provide reverse cell phone information, too. I decided to put them to the test and conduct my own review.

In a previous job, I was required to work with reverse directories to help find people for my employer.  Often, we had a phone number on record from someone who had called in to our office, but not the name associated with that phone number.

My job was to use reverse directories that offer a reverse phone lookup in order to find the name that was tied to that phone number.  This was back before Google – in fact, back when the only such directories were available in book subscription form.  These directories were outdated as quickly as the books arrived at the office.  Now, we have the world wide web and a wealth of data at our disposal.  The advent of the internet makes reverse phone lookups more accessible and more accurate than ever before.

It is cell phones that pose today’s challenge. While landline phone and address information may be readily available even through a Google search, cell phone records are not widely distributed and doing a reverse cell phone lookup will often get you no information at all through Google or free lookup services.

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