Find a name from a number...
DanielWhit
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Does anyone know of how I can find the name of a person from a phone number?
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DanielWhit
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Posts: 2,177 DanielWhit
Posts: 2,177 DanielWhit
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EDIT...Never mind we no longer have the software at work anyway sorry
Its illegal to reverse look up a number unless you are connected to the authorities in some way.
Do you know if this was something that has recently become law or has it always been the case..
Just interested really?
Actually got the legalities from BT when I was having some funny phone calls about 12 months back when I tried to trace a number.
I do not know how long the laws have been in effect.
The law obviously goes back at least a few years.
It would seem BTs action in 2000 was to do with who owned the rights to phone numbers !!!
you and google have been busy!
Yeah.. I really must get a hobby or something...
No it's changed back again now, they just decided it was silly so they changed it back to the old system and got rid of the 2003 law.
Of course it's still illegal lol
Don't be an arse. Its not a completely stupid question, some laws have been changed you know.
If you found someones address in this way - and got your collar felt for it - you could always argue that if that person is in the phone book, you could have read it cover to cover to find that same information, so all you've done is speeded up the process?
What really makes the difference? If the person is listed it means that details are available to all, so who is anyone to dictate whether you should be able to find out the hard, or the easy way, the infomation that's there?
BT used to have something like a 'phonebook on a disk', not sure if they still do it but that's for landlines only.
Evevn the directory enquiry companies wouldn't be able to do it (I used to work for 118888) - they search on the name, not the number - but in any case, they list landlines only.
"01159505050"
"0115 9 50 50 50"
"01159 50 50 50"
"0115 950 5050"
(If it's a five digit code then try "01159 505 050")
Even if you work for the network you are not allowed to view random peoples details for no reason as this is breaking the Data Protection Act.
The site you mention only appears to apply to US numbers.
If you restrict the google search to UK sites only, you get 92 sites most of which either confirm that reverse look up is illegal in the UK or link to reverse look up sites for US numbers (plus quite a few about dyscalculia)
Badly coded site. Stay away from it.
There is a similar site that is bad coded etc
www.mobilenumbers.org ( no UK)
Maybe worth checking both sites!!!!
You are kidding? It looks like the home page was written by an year old.
Astonishing, that anyone would put their details on there.
Only 2 posts and both of them are advertising his site SCAM :rolleyes:
Reverse Number searches are not in themselves illegal, many mobile and landline number are in the public domain, and search sites will pick them up quite lawfully.
It becomes unlawful for Operators, and Authorities to release the information that is bound by a number of laws, and it isn't that easy for the police to trace number either, don't forget a number of mobile users never register their phones. So although you can get cell site information and even messages and numbers called, it doesn't always tell you who is using the phone!