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Until recently you could search Facebook for a phone number or email address and find the Facebook account associated with it. This little trick was great when someone gave you their number at a party and you forgot their name, or when you needed to sort through hundreds of John Smiths to find the one you play softball with on Wednesdays.
So why would Facebook remove something so mind bogglingly useful? Because it turns out scammers also appreciated this little life hack. Those numbers might have some use on their own, but they become way more useful for breaking into individual systems or committing fraud if you can attach more data to them. Facebook is saying that this kind of malicious actor would regularly take one of those numbers and use the platform to hunt down all publicly available data on its owner.
This process, of course, could be automated and reap huge rewards with little effort. Well there are still tools out there for reverse looking up a phone number , including Google and the old-fashioned White Pages. None are quite as useful as Facebook, alas.
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Another amazing benefit to creating a free membership with National Cellular Directory is that they have a Happy Hour every day where you can do two premium cell phone searches for free of charge! That means that you can find the most recent and accurate information about a phone number at no cost to you!
And the best part is, you get to do it every day if you need to! Doing a reverse phone search will get you the name, address, city, state, other phone numbers that belong to an owner if available. Google used to have a phonebook service, but it was taken down when people started wanting their information removed from the service.
Even on the off-chance that Google has any information in regards to who has been calling you, it may not be reliable or up to date.
8 Ways on How to Find Someone's Cell Phone Number for Free
The area code listed on the phone number that keeps calling you may give you more insight into what kind of call it is than you realize. Foreign area codes are most of the time scammers. Toll-Free numbers like or are usually telemarketers.
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Always beware of toll-free numbers and calls coming from outside of the US. Also look at this list from Forbes to see the some international area codes that are unsafe. Additionally, the area code will give insight into where someone lives. In the illustration below, you can see that 5.
If you look up that area code from a cell phone number, you will discover that the caller lives in New York City. This phone number database is built by its users.
How to Find Someone's Phone Number Online
People share information on a call they receive. If other people have had a call from the number that is contacting you, they can report it on the website for you to view at your leisure. This method will only work if the number is calling other people and at least one other person has reported the number to you. Additionally, even if they report the number they might not have any more information than you already have on the number.
When it’s wise to share your number (and when it’s not)
When entering my cell phone number, I was given old information about myself including my maiden name, but not my married name an old landline number which was disconnected a few years back , a former address, and they had my age wrong by 16 years. Whitepages claims to be free, but after it compiled my report, the website asked me to pay for the information is found on the number I provided.
It did not offer me the name, or even address of the person who owned the number. I knew at that point that the number I searched was low risk, so that information was valuable. However, any other information that I wanted I had to pay for. This is the only entirely free service that will give you accurate information in regards to who keeps harassing you.
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