We live in an increasingly digitized world and day by day we are more "prone" to being scammed or extorted through our mobile. Calls and text messages are usually tools that many scammers or extortionists use to blackmail us in exchange for money.
It is important that we are attentive to those telephone numbers from which we receive a call or an SMS and we do not know who they came from. Here we are going to explain how to know about who is a phone number of which perhaps they have been calling you and it has generated some uncertainty, so that you know who it is. Keep in mind that you can "take a chance" and send a message to that number and thus ask who it is. you can even send a message to the number even if it is blocked.
Using Facebook
Using Facebook can I find out whose phone number it is? Well yes, and it is that Facebook is one of the largest social networks, it has millions of users. Therefore, many have registered your phone number on this platform, so it can use its user database to find out whose number you are looking for. You can start with the “easy” way, go to the Facebook search bar and enter the number, then generate a search, some results will appear and the number may be related to a user.
There is another method that is less easy, but it is very good. It is the following:
- open one incognito tab in browser.
- Go to the Facebook page, in the “Log in".
- Click on "I forgot my password".
- Enter the phone number you want to know who owns it. Finally, if the number is registered as a phone to recover a Facebook account, the profile of the person who has used this phone will appear.
It's a type Simple really, but remember to do it carefully to avoid privacy issues.
Google and identification services
Google is a great search engine, so you can try looking up the phone number on this platform. In case you don't get anything, you can also use online identifiers, it's about databases with millions of recordss in which there are telephone numbers; so you can know who owns that phone number that may be creating problems. The sites or directories that you can use to search for identification records are:
- Yellow Pages: This directory will be very useful, enter the phone number in it.
- ¿Who called? OrWho calls me?: directories that you get online and are created based on a record made by users who enter the platform. It may be the site you need to identify any phone number.
- SpamList: a list of telephone numbers that call to do SPAM, they also tend to send SMS. You can use this to verify if the intention of being called or written from an unknown number is to sell you something.
Android Apps for identification of telephone numbers
There is a series of Android applications that you can use to know whose annoying phone number is that may be extorting money or simply sending spam.
Surely you already have WhatsApp on your phone, this application can be very useful, since user profiles are directly related to a phone number. To identify an unknown number with this app you must enter the number in your WhatsApp and add it as a new contact. Then, you can search for your contacts and the contact related to the phone number will appear there and you will be able to know a little more about who it is. You can even see his profile picture and know if you know him or not. Keep in mind that the number may not be registered with WhatsApp.
Truecaller
It is another application that can help you, you just have to download it to your device, register your phone number (do not use the staff if you do not want them to know that this is your number). then you can do a phone number search you don't know who it belongs to. If you are registered in this app, it will show you the profile of that person. You can even know his postal address and other small data, but that will help you clear up your doubts.
tellows
It is a directory that you can use through the web, but it also has an app to make things a little easier when it comes to identifying a phone number. Keep in mind that it is a directory full of a lot of information that is provided by users; that they have already had some experience with telephone numbers that they have registered to “report” these unknown telephone numbers in some way. The Tellows has 7 million records, possibly you get the owner of the phone number who has called you or sent an anonymous SMS.
To answer or not to answer, that is the question
If you don't know whether or not to answer an unknown number, it is best to first make sure who the person is calling or writing to you. Try using some of these solutions. In case none of them work in your case, then contact directly with the operator and indicates that this number is bothering you. They can block the number and even if it is a sales center number, they will tell you what it is, so you don't worry that it is extortion or scam.