How To Trace A Cell Phone Number
In the world, by law, every mobile phone number must be registered by a user with his / her identity document. This means that a specific person is associated with each SIM card.
Unlike the landline numbers that we can easily find with the White Pages site, there is no phone book of cell numbers. Only the judicial authority, in the event of an investigation, can directly ask the telephone operators, who own a mobile phone number. However, in some cases, it is possible to find out the owner of a cell phone number crosswise.
So if, when you receive a call from an unknown number, you want to know who this phone number belongs to, you will find in this article, various ways to trace the owner of a cell phone number, using the tools and services that the Network offers us.
How to know who a phone number belongs to
Below is a brief index of all the methods on how to search for the holder of a cell phone number, which will be explained in detail in the article. Among these methods, you won’t find Facebook (which was an exceptional source) because, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the search for contacts by phone number was blocked.
Use Google to trace the owner of a phone number
It may seem like a puffin secret, but using Google you can achieve interesting results in a very simple way. Just 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, dictate to the search engine, to search all the web pages in which it is contained exactly this number or phrase, excluding very similar results, even if slightly different from our search number.
In this way, the search engine will check for you, if by chance the numbering belongs to some business. Indeed some many businesses and professionals enter their number to be contacted by customers.
Also, some numbers belonging to famous call centers or connected to scams are a topic of discussion among people on the net and therefore often the search on Google gives the result of a page in which it is talked about.
If the search did not return any results, one of the other available online services may help.
Truecaller a good filter against harassing calls
It is one of the most well-known apps regarding the contrast to calls from call centers: has millions of downloads and a large collaborative database. The claim that he takes the users’ contacts to insert them in his database is false, the service has shown that he respects the privacy regulations.
Truecaller is available for free with purchases in the App for both Android and iOS. The TrueCaller database is also available for free, through this website however, to log in you must log in by registering a user account or logging in via a Google or Microsoft account.
Sync.me the telephone directory of mobile numbers
It is a service very similar to what we described in the previous paragraph, this too is based on user reports and has a large community.
According to many Sync.me represents the best solution to trace the owner of a mobile number. No registration is needed, just a few clicks to check if a number, with information on its owner, is present in the database.
Just connect to on the service website, indicate the country, write the phone number and click on the “Search“. At this point, if the number is in the database, we will be given different information, the owner and the operator. Information about the telephone operator is often unreliable, keep this in mind!
Allows a gigantic database available
A valid free solution to finding the identity of a number is to use the Tellows site, which, thanks to user reports (it has a huge community of 7 million users), has developed an interesting database also containing mobile numbers.
This is a very convenient service (also available in the form of an App) that you can use, for example, to understand if that number that calls you continuously and then hangs up is not a stalker but is simply a harassing call center. Using the site is very simple and free, just connect to the dedicated page enter the phone number we want to investigate, and click on the “Research“.
If these four solutions don’t work, you can also take advantage of 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 cell phone number it is
Chats have become an integral part of everyone’s life, we hardly notice it anymore, but they are fundamental. Among these the most used are always WhatsApp and Telegram, it is very difficult to find a user with a smartphone who has not installed at least one.
So, to try to find the identity of the owner of a number that you do not know and perhaps to trace the name and surname, you can try to follow this procedure:
- store the unknown number in your address book using a random name (e.g. AAA);
- open the WhatsApp app and enter the contacts, press the “menu” button with the three dots at the top right and press the “Refresh“;
- then check if the stored contact appears among the contacts, at this point you can investigate by viewing its profile photo and username.
If the user appears in the list but does not appear to have any photos, it is because he has probably changed the settings relating to factory privacy, to allow viewing of the profile photo only to the contacts saved in his address book.
If nothing appears on WhatsApp you can try with Telegram:
- open the Telegram app and click on the menu at the top left (the icon with the three horizontal lines);
- Click on the item “Contacts“;
- scroll through the contacts until you find the one stored (if it appears), then you can also investigate in this case to trace the username and view the profile photo.
These are currently all the methods that can be used to discover the holder of a mobile number.