Reverse phone directory?

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Anyone know of a free reverse phone directory on the internet that actually works, i.e., tells you whose number it is that called?

All I can find just say, "We know." Which helps me not.
 
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I used to walk into office at work and use their phone to call the unknown numbers. I either never got an answer or they quickly hung up. But you never know. Once my lawyer called me and it came up as potential spam.
 
10-4, sophie.

In the early days of the internet, people would take the phone number disks and upload them.

You could easily look up numbers. For free.

Then someone figured out they could monetize it.

What I don't understand is why Google/Yahoo don't bring up the freebies. Where did all the free sites go? Hard to believe they just quit it. Me thinks Google/Yahoo are being paid off, or they actually own the big boys like Intelius.
 
Gamecock said:
10-4, sophie.

In the early days of the internet, people would take the phone number disks and upload them.

You could easily look up numbers. For free.

Then someone figured out they could monetize it.

What I don't understand is why Google/Yahoo don't bring up the freebies. Where did all the free sites go? Hard to believe they just quit it. Me thinks Google/Yahoo are being paid off, or they actually own the big boys like Intelius.
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It only works for land lines that aren't scrambled to show a local number.
 
The real problem is the calls that are truly fraudulent and trying to scam you have been "Spoofed", the correct term for what mtgianni called scrambled. ]I have even received spoofed calls that were supposedly from my own cell number!

Any calls I receive that are identified as as Spam or potential Spam come back on a search as either there being no good information or Robo Killer hits. Often they have as many as a dozen different, obviously fake, names attached. The simplest way is to just not answer any calls that your caller ID shows anything you do not recognize.
 
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I hope everyone is happy with the current telephone system and the manner in which directories now operate. Just another fine example of what government leaves it people after they get done fixing it. I miss the old Ma Bell with telephone directories being free and a friendly operator to help find what you needed. Sure is a mess today!
 
Tried it, martyd. It did identify the phone type, without hassle. So better than most.

Didn't give caller ID, so not great.
 
Gamecock,

It usually gives the name and location but not address.

It identifies VOIP as such and usually states it cannot identify person due to being a VOIP and that they may be scammers.

For some reasons when it identifies the carrier it cannot identify the person or other information due to that carrier having that particular number blocked.

For 2 years I have used this service and have never had to pay anything.
 
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For most numbers you'd look up, you really don't need to know who it was. For the rest, you could call the number and ask. :)
 
martyd said:
YES!!!!

Free Reverse Phone Number Lookup

I have used this for a couple of years, good complete info.
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Actually, NO.

They wanted $1 for a trial membership. I used my own phone number. I repeated it with a local number that is known to not be unlisted, and in service for 60 years. It came up with the wrong name (initials) and showed it was half way across the country.

There are better sites that will,give a name and address for a local number.
 
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