Trace Mobile Phone Number

[bucko]

Hiya someone just called me and hung up. I have a fair idea who it is but they made the fatel mistake of not doing a private number call (how do you do that?).

Is it possible to trace a number to were there located or there name?

I'm in UK

Thanks for help, I just rung up and they didn't answer, ill try and catch them unsurprsingly or bug the hell out of them.

[Storm]

id like to know the same thing too please, and if not with mobile numbers, land lines

[mtw]

Can't you just call BT or whatver company that keeps numbers and makes catalogs in the UK?

Here in Norway you just send the name number on sms and get the name and adress back. Just like ordering a ringtone or similar.

--mtw

[Elmo]

u want the number of someone how rang with withheld number yea?

[twiglet]

afaik BT dont give you names from just numbers.

there are some reverse lookup directories floating around on the internet if you know where to look. i havent come across one that does mobiles tho

[bucko]

u want the number of someone how rang with withheld number yea?

I wouldn't mind knowing who they are when they do that to.

Ill take this up with the courts if I can't find out whos ringing me.

[twiglet]

Ill take this up with the courts if I can't find out whos ringing me.

lol. dude, just call your service provider. the least they can do is have them blocked from calling you

[Jaded]

Yes it is possible to track where the cell phone is to within 150m or so, but you wont be able to do it. Only the telephone company can. As it is said before, a reverse look-up works, but only for land lines, not for cellular phones.

On a side note, how immature are you where you feel the need to harass someone just because they accidently phoned you with the wrong number.

[Kudos Veteran]

Yes it is possible to track where the cell phone is to within 150m or so, but you wont be able to do it. Only the telephone company can. As it is said before, a reverse look-up works, but only for land lines, not for cellular phones.

On a side note, how immature are you where you feel the need to harass someone just because they accidently phoned you with the wrong number.

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Who said someone just accidently phoned them with the wrong number.

/k

[bucko]

LOL it happens all the while, when I ring the wrong number I usually say hi expecting it to be the person then say sorry and hang up cause it's not.

I ring up the number again still no one answers, just this time they forgot to do private number, I get loads of pranc calls I think its time to change number.

[Infy]

If you want to call someone with a Withheld number all you have to do is put 141 in front of that number

For example:

07987694855

14107987694855

that person should receive the phone call which will say 'Withheld', 'Private Number' or something like that

Hope it helps

[tuckeratlarge]

No phone company will give you a name and address for a number, primarily because it's illegal.

Furthermore, if it's a pay as you go phone and they haven't registered the phone no one knows who owns the phone.

If it's a land line the only thing your gonna know is the area they are from by the first 4 numbers, the area code.

There are databases floating around the net to do reverse look-up but they don't include mobiles, especially PAYG, and also don't include land lines which are ex-directory.

As for the figure of 150m posted earlier, I work for a couple of Mobile phone companies in the UK, on the switch and base station hardware, and they can do it to within 5 metres purely on triangulation and power of signal. But they sure won't do it for you.

Edited January 8, 2005 by tuckeratlarge

[eminem213486]

in the us, you can go to either, anywho.com or phonenumber.com and do the "reverse search" which you input their numbers and it gives you their information, with a cellphone though, its private but it does list the carrier. which comes in handy. i find that phonenumber.com is better than anywho by a long shot.

sorry i dont knwo any in the Uk though. but i hope someone will find my post helpful

[Xtreme $niper]

Well for the person that wanted to know how to do this for land lines... For canada its, 411.ca. For america its 411.com... I'm not sure about for UK though. Just search "Reverse phone number lookup for UK"

[timaksla]

For USA cell numbers recent news just confirmed that no plans for free reverse cell phone lookup directory have been made. So we cant trace cell number with 100% certainty.

[Snowl]

nice 4 year bump!

Edited September 29, 2009 by Kirbeh

[AbandonedTrolley]

nice 4 year bump!

Indeed, I guess that's the joys of these 'bots' that go through forums to post links to sites.

[SMELTN]

Holy old thread batman.