Find out who that phone number belongs to

First published on February 16, 2007

Hounded by a 1-800 or other number who keeps calling? For some reason they won’t disclose who they are? Well, if they really have Caller ID blocked, you’re a bit out of luck. But if you know what the number is but it just so happened to be a private number, you can still do some investigating.

Check out this smart whocalled.us site. The premise is that we can all help each other out by entering whatever information we know about a particular number that called us. Each number gets its own information page. By sharing whatever information we have, we can uncover the identities of those people and companies who just won’t stop calling. Sometimes it’s a collection agency that has the wrong number. Sometimes it’s a phishing attempt…

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8 Responses to “Find out who that phone number belongs to”

1. February 22nd, 2007 at 7:18 am
   Leah says:

   I used this and it was great. I was actually quite worried about this random number that kept phoning me – once I used this site, I felt a lot better knowing it wasn’t just me!

   Thanks!

2. May 1st, 2007 at 3:32 am
   Windsor says:

   looking for who belongs to this phone number 410-210-9898

3. May 1st, 2007 at 7:57 am
   Peter says:

   I can’t help you with that, but http://whocalled.us might have it in their database…

4. June 21st, 2008 at 6:04 am
   annika says:

   hi i was wondering if you couldtell me who this number belongs to 0151 9228219

5. July 8th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
   Sandy says:

   I googled to see if I could find who called me and left no name, anyway I stumpled on this. Thank You for the information about whocalled.us it is very helpful and I will use it often. Thanks Sandy

6. November 25th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
   Celeste says:

   Hi,

   Thank you for sharing this informationn Peter. I’m my husband’s secretary and for TWO years, a woman calls him and don’t identified herself. Most times she hangs up on me. Others, is very rude, do not answer when I ask who she is, and just says "I’m gonna email him". OF COURSE I already have asked him but he "doesn’t know who she is". He "Has no idea". Just yesterday called and I’m on rage! The caller ID says "Private name, Private number". Any hope for me Peter? Thanks for your time

7. November 25th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
   Peter says:

   Hi Celeste. Sadly, I don’t know of any way to trace a call if it was purposely blocked. Maybe there are some sneaky ways to make her divulge her identity?

8. June 16th, 2010 at 5:26 am
   Amy says:

   Hey,

   This was useful! I wanted to double check a number to ensure that it was legit. And finding that entry useful, I poked around on your blog and found some other useful crap, too. Am bookmarking this. So thanks!

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