Reverse Number Look up - Any good ones?

I use to be able to look numbers up using several sources but they have all seemed to have gone away. If you try googling a number 99.9% of the time you get 8 million pages of ads for services.

So are there any good "real" services out there? Free would be better but I would not mind paying for a service if it is decent. I would probably use it a couple times a week if I had access to it. I have had my cell # for more close to 20 Years and it has got on all sorts of lists. With my new phone, all the blocked numbers that were on my old phone are no longer so I am getting all kinds of BS crap calls from people threatening to sue me if I don't pay them for some sort of fictitious debt or some electric company wanting to sell me cheap electricity.

You can try this.

It finds my home line and my inlaws home line.
All these reverse lookups are just phone book databases, so, if your number is not in the phone book, it will not find you.
Most numbers now are not in the phone book since all cell phone based numbers are not in any phone book and therefore not found by these look ups.

If you have Sprint, you can get advanced caller Id, it acts like the old box you plugged into your landline, brings up the account holders name of the number. Although seeing scammers call from a hospital, discover card, and visa fraud protection hasn't made me feel better.

I also highly recommend the free app mr. Number

It has a built it block list, and you can add and edit numbers on its own.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the do not call list only works for people following laws. Robocalls and account services scammers aren't following the laws so it's just wasting time and energy complaining about the do not call list to them.

All of that assuming you want to do it from your phone.

From a computer, whitepages.com reverse number lookup still works fairly well.

I got 3 calls on my cell today from a phone spammer. I snitched them off:

https://donotcall.gov/

whitepages.com and facebook

The main problem is that scammers have taken to using Voice over IP (VoIP; think Skype) to dial your number. They use VoIP to spoof a random telephone number. A lot of times they'll use your area code and NXX and then a random 4 digits (ARC-NXX-####) to make it look like someone in your home area is calling you. So if your phone number is 410-555-1212, they'll call you "from" 410-555-9876 to make you think it might be a friend with a new number or something.

The solution to this is to make a law that forces the longhaul carriers to not allow VoIP calls to spoof numbers.

Sorry, I'm a telecomm geek.

Sure, we need another law. Then a law that says that law has to be followed. And then a law saying that one needs to be followed.

There's already laws being violated.

Dr. Hess wrote: There's already laws being violated.

Which one, other than the DoNotCall list? And you can't track an offender if he uses a different number every time, because the DoNotCall Registry is by telephone number.

Huh.

I have a Google Nexus phone, when a scammer calls, it pulls up with a red screen and tells me it's a scammer.

Guess I should buy an Apple phone or a Samsung and have to download additional apps instead of the stock Android OS.

In reply to Sky_Render: You're right, the old resources are dried up and gone, converted to pay services. Best guess would be to google the number, understanding the VOIP limitations already discussed.

I never answer my cell if I don't recognize the number. If I get a call and they don't leave a message, they get added to a contact I have saved called Junk. Spammers never leave messages. I have set my phone to ignore all calls from Junk. I get very few calls from people I don't know anymore, it's great.

z31maniac wrote: Huh. I have a Google Nexus phone, when a scammer calls, it pulls up with a red screen and tells me it's a scammer. Guess I should buy an Apple phone or a Samsung and have to download additional apps instead of the stock Android OS.

My Google Pixel does that, too. Sometimes. I'd say it flags less than 20% of spam calls as such.

That's why they're spoofing numbers. Stay ahead of the spam lists.