In Spain, by law, every mobile phone number must be registered by a user with their identity document. This means that each phone SIM is associated with a specific person.
Unlike the landline numbers that we can easily find on the Pagine Bianche website, there is no telephone directory of mobile numbers. Only the judicial authority, in the event of an investigation, can directly request telephone operators who owns a mobile phone number. However, in some cases, it is possible to discover the owner of a mobile number indirectly.
So if when you receive a call from an unknown number, you want to know Who owns this phone number?, you will find in this article several ways to track the owner of a mobile number, using the tools and services that the Internet offers us.
How to find out who owns a phone number
Below is a brief index of all methods for finding the owner of a mobile number, which will be explained in detail in the article. Among these methods you will not find Facebook (which was a great source) because after the Cambridge Analitica scandal, contact tracing by phone number was blocked.
ARTICLE INDEX
- Use Google to find the owner of a phone number
- Truecaller is a good filter against annoying calls
- Sync.me the mobile number phone directory
- Tellows a gigantic database at your disposal
- Use WhatsApp and Telegram to find out whose mobile number it is
Use Google to find the owner of a phone number
It may seem like an open secret, but Using Google you can achieve interesting results In a very simple way. Simply search for the number you are interested in by entering it in the search bar between double quotes:
for example: "0123-45678910"
This simple rule or trick, imposes on the search engine, to search all the web pages in which it is contained exactly this number or phrase, excluding very similar, although slightly different results from our search number.
In this way, the search engine will check for you, if by chance the numbering belongs to any commercial activity. Indeed There are many companies and professionals who enter their number to be contacted by clients..
Furthermore, some numbers belonging to famous call centers or linked to scams are the subject of discussion among people online and therefore a Google search often results in a page where they are discussed.
If your search returns no results, one of the other online services available may be helpful.
Truecaller is a good filter against annoying calls
This is one of the best-known apps when it comes to combating call center calls: It has millions of downloads and a large collaborative database. The claim that users' contacts are needed to insert them into its database is false, the service has demonstrated that it respects privacy regulations.
Truecaller is available for free with in-app purchases for both Android and iOS. Truecaller database is also available for free, through this website, however to access you must log in by registering a user account or logging in through a Google or Microsoft account.
Sync.me the mobile number phone directory
This is a very similar service to the one we described in the previous paragraph, it is also based on user reports and has a large community.
According to many, Sync.me represents the best solution to track the owner of a mobile number. There is no need to register, just a few clicks are enough to check if a number, with information about its owner, is present in the database.
Simply connect to the service's website, indicate the country, type the phone number and click the "Search" button. At this point, if the number is in the database, we will be given various information, the owner and the operator. Information from the telephone operator is often unreliable, keep this in mind!
Tellows a gigantic database at your disposal
A valid free solution to find the identity of a number is to use the Tellows website, which, thanks to complaints from its users (it has a huge community of 7 million users), has developed an interesting database that also contains mobile numbers.
It is a very convenient service (also available in the form of an App) that you can use, for example, to find out if that number that constantly calls you and then hangs up is not a harasser but simply an annoying call center. Using the site is very simple and free., simply connect to the dedicated page, enter the phone number we want to investigate and click the "Search" button.
If these four solutions do not work, you can also use WhatsApp and Telegram to try to find out who is hiding behind a phone number, now we will see how.
Use WhatsApp and Telegram to find out whose mobile number it is
Chats have become an integral part of all our lives., we hardly pay attention to them anymore, but they are essential. Among these, the most used are always WhatsApp and Telegram, it is very difficult to find a user with a smartphone who does not have at least one installed.
So, to try to find the identity of the owner of a number you don't know and perhaps trace their first and last name, you can try following this procedure:
- store the unknown number in your address book using a random name (for example, AAA);
- Open the WhatsApp application and enter your contacts, press the "menu" button with the three dots at the top right and press the "Update" item;
- Then check if the stored contact appears among your contacts, at this point you can investigate by looking at their profile photo and username.
If the user appears in the list but does not appear to have any photos, it is because they have probably changed the factory privacy settings to allow only contacts saved in their address book to see the profile photo.
If nothing appears on WhatsApp you can try Telegram:
- open the Telegram application and click on the menu at the top left (the icon with the three horizontal lines);
- click on the "Contacts" item;
- Scroll through the contacts until you find the stored one (if it appears), then you can also investigate in this case to find the username and see the profile photo.
These are currently all the methods that can be used to discover the owner of a mobile number.
How to track the owner of a mobile number
