It has happened to all of us at some point that we receive calls from landline numbers that are not among our contacts, and that for reasons beyond our control either become missed calls or the circumstances in which we receive them generate distrust, and it also generates concern. and it prompts us to investigate, who does it belong to and why is it calling me?
It is not a secret for many that it is a strategy of those who are dedicated to marketing by dialing numbers or, in the worst case, people whose objective is to commit crimes through this means and end up harassing those who receive the calls by telephone. Using fixed numbers because it is more difficult to relate it to people in the common searches we do through the social media.
There are also situations of someone who does not complete the call due to signal problems or any other cause not related to crime and its ways of attacking society.
In any case, if something like this happens to you, you surely want to know who was calling you? And why? And it is important that you know that, nowadays, there are many ways to know the owner of that line or number that takes away your peace of mind and in this article we are going to help you achieve it.
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Should I pay to find out?
We know that currently there are few free modalities for any issue that has to do with your security and this would be one of them, however, there are free options such as reviewing the printed telephone directory to investigate if it belongs to a business or institution.
There are also online modalities that cost nothing, which can be used if we do not intend to spend money to obtain this information that we have obtained just by calling the sender back.
Google may have the answer
If consulting the phone book did not give you results, the number does not appear as a contact for any company or government institution. You used the “online” option of the yellow and white pages and nothing, you are still searching.
At this level of your search you can opt for Google by doing the following:
- Certainly, an online way accessible at any time and almost always effective is to write in the search engine. Google the landline number whose owner you want to find out, and ask them to look it up.
- ● It is clear that the answer you get will depend on how public the use of this number has been by its owner, to place it as a contact number when you decide to subscribe to the pages, email services or profiles of the networks.
- Remember to write the phone number in quotes so that the search is precise and does not give you results for similar numbers, which surely abound on the Internet, those that are differentiated by a single number, but are taken into account by the web search engine.
With Facebook you can also find it
You asked Google for help and it also couldn't give you guidance on what is the name of that person calling you from an unknown landline number?
Let's continue searching online and review the public network that many people have granted access to so that, other people like you who need to know who is that mysterious number? or if there is someone who knows the landline number of a friend's home or business, wants to confirm that she still uses it as a contact phone number, you can find it on Facebook.
This social network has the option to search for you in its database using emails, names or emails that you used to create the user that your network of friends can see in your public information, following these steps:
- You surely have your Facebook profile active, if not, register and create one
- Enter your profile and locate the option that allows you to search for friends.
- Now write the landline number that keeps you in this search
- Press “Enter” and review the results.
- If you think they are not reliable, discard them and continue your search.
You must consider that many people have the ability to create fake profiles on Facebook and it may be that the information you get is not what you are looking for, so you must confirm how true it is by making a call that allows you to hear that person's voice to See if it seems familiar to you or tell them that you have a missed call with that ID and you would be interested in knowing the reason.
Other options to consult this information
When neither Google nor Facebook works, you still should not go to the police or resort to a private investigator, you can use other free tools that current technology provides you:
- WhoCalledMe: is recognized as a server that provides reliable and immediate data when you are looking for the owner of a phone number that has been making calls and you consider that it may be spam. The database of this search engine has access to a large number of landline and mobile phone numbers, as well as personal information about their owners. When you use it, check the opinion of those who have used this option so that you can facilitate the search more accurately, taking into account the recommendations they can provide you.
- ListaSpam: this is another option that allows you to identify who owns a mobile or landline phone number that has called you without being among your contacts, just enter the portal and write the phone number in its search engine and wait for the results, It is best to get other numbers that interest you, even if you cannot calm your concern about those ghost calls.
- WhoHasCalled: has the same characteristics as the previous options, with the advantage that in addition to its own database it gives you a link to review a telephone directory on the web with numbers reported as spam or that do not have any information that validates them as assigned to a permanent owner.
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