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When You Want to Know Who Called Your Home Phone

January 18, 2009 by Amit Bhawani

If you have caller ID on your home phone, then you know this is a great feature. With caller ID, you can see that someone in your family called or one of your friends called. But, what if you see a number from a person you do not know. The phone number area code looks to be out of your area. In fact, you know the area code is not from your area. So, what do you do? How can you find out who where this phone number is from and who is the person calling you?

Well, since the advent of the Internet, it is now easy to find out where a particular phone number is from and who that person calling is. There are several ways to do, what is called a reverse phone lookup. Did you know this can be done? That is why having Internet access is amazing. There are actually companies on the Internet who, when you type in an unknown phone number, allow you to see where the number is from and who called you.

Home PhoneDoing a reverse phone number lookup can be done by typing into any search engine (Yahoo, Google, Fire Fox) “Reverse Phone Lookup” or “Reverse Phone Directory”. Once you find an online reverse phone number company, click on that website and type in the phone number showing on your caller ID.

Right now, there are at least five online reverse phone directories where any phone number can be typed in to begin doing a search on the number, and person calling. Just right now, I did a reverse phone lookup on a company that I contract work with and their city showed up along with the name of the company. This is good enough for me. Sometimes, if you are doing a reverse phone number lookup, you might have to pay a fee.

With everyone having cell phones these days, anyone can now do a reverse cell phone number online. That is great because sometimes, not always, unknown cell phone numbers which I did not add to my cell phone, are showing up on my LCD screen.

These days, almost any information you need, phone numbers included, can be found online. All you have to do is type in that unknown number into a reverse phone directory and right before your eyes, is the person who called you.

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My name is Amit Bhawani and here I like to share my internet/tech experience with my online readers. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram at @AmitBhawani I am also the Editor-in-Chief of PhoneRadar & Master Gadgets

About Amit Bhawani

My name is Amit Bhawani and here I like to share my internet/tech experience with my online readers. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram at @AmitBhawani

Comments

  1. Aman says

    January 18, 2009 at 9:01 am

    Thats a good way but these days some of the calls come up as Private No instead of normal phone no., is there a way to find out who called us as few days back I got 2-3 calls at late night which showed up as Private No and hence I can’t figure out who called me..

  2. Shailendra says

    January 19, 2009 at 3:52 am

    Hi,

    But is this applicable in indian context? How can we use this to find out such kind of directory for number from India.

    Regards
    Shailendra

  3. Mohammed Irfan says

    January 19, 2009 at 10:05 am

    This is rubbish! Reverse lookup hardly is applicable in indian context , like shailendra said..

  4. Shailendra says

    January 19, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    Amit,

    I read your most of posts, but being indian blogpost it would be better if you write post which is useful for us.

  5. KK says

    February 10, 2010 at 6:37 am

    Seriously going thr this post was waste of time…. doesnt really apply to india

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