How to find out whose cell phone number is

Have you ever received a call from an unknown number and you don't know whether to answer or not and you wonder? Whose is this number?

In these cases, you may find it useful to read an article like this one, where I will show you the best services for look up a cell phone number starting from the first or last name or starting from a real number to track the owner.

How to find out whose cell phone number is

By using these services to find out who owns a phone number, you are not violating any privacy laws.

Numbers entered into the services are periodically registered by accepting the conditions of the services or by entering the telephone number somewhere, so if you find what you're looking for in these lists the call was probably unimportant or came from some marketing service.

There is always the possibility of blocking commercial or advertising calls or blocking a telephone number; See how to block a number on iPhone.

Google

It may seem trivial, but Google is a very powerful search engine, so why not try inserting the unknown number into searches and see which sites or social pages it appears on?

1. Open the Google home page
2. Enter the number in the search bar and click "Google Search" or feel lucky to try your luck with the first useful result.

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With a little luck you will find the number associated with a social page, site or other publicly accessible service where it was used, to quickly track down the sender of the call.

Who calls

Another very useful service to find the origin of a call is: "Who is calling?".

LINK | Who calls?

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Type the phone number in the field provided and click Search to start the search.

If the number belongs to an invasive calling service, a call center or any other number reported by the community, you will see reviews about it. The latter will clearly tell you if the call came from someone you were right not to answer.

You won't find many private numbers there, but for numbers in the public domain or already reported it is practically unbeatable.

Who calls

If you want to know who owns a mobile phone number, another useful service is: “Who is calling”.

LINK | Who is calling (page is no longer available)

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On this site you can search for the landline or mobile phone number that called you by clicking on the item at the top Search for landline and mobile phone numbers, consulting the complete list of contacts by clicking on Phone list at the top right or using the Announcement System Telephone Directory present on the home screen.

All numbers entered are reviewed by other users, so if you find the number you are looking for here it means that the reputation is most likely negative, so it is almost certain that some person or company has called you bothers.

Mobile phone directory

If you received a call from a foreign number, you can search it on the “Mobile Phone Directory” site.

LINK | Mobile phone directory

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Enter the foreigner's number you received in the text field at the top and then click the "Search" button.

If the number is indexed, you will see it appear immediately with all the information you can get from the contact (as long as this information is publicly available).

On the next screen, filters are also available to help you better find any sender by last name, job, or region.

Immersion3000

Among the numerous services that you can try to find a mobile number, we cannot fail to mention Dive3000.

LINK | Immersion3000

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To access the mobile phone directory managed by the site, you will first need to register on the site.

Enter all the requested data (in particular, enter a valid email and a secure password), confirm the anti-robot CAPTCHA and click "Register"; Alternatively, you can use access through your Facebook profile.

Once inside, you can search for the unknown number in the enormous database offered by the service, made up of both numbers associated with professionals or companies and numbers of users who have chosen to appear on the list.

Other sites to find out whose cell phone number is

The ones that I have shown you in this guide are without a doubt the best places to find an unknown mobile number or a contact whose name and surname only you know, but to expand your search to professionals and companies you can also rely on the services indicated below:

• PagineBianche: the famous service linked to the telephone directory
• PagineGialle: excellent for searching numbers of professionals or companies
• Truecaller – unwanted phone number indexing service (see also the article on how to block a number on iPhone)

You will surely find the number you are looking for using all the services together, especially if the number was entered into one of the online databases.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to know in advance whether the mobile number is present online, as for privacy reasons the owner of the number must agree to have their number appear on the lists.