Reverse number lookup

VIRII

VIRII

VIRII

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To save a mate of mine blowing a few hundred on a PI does anyone know a method of finding an address from either a landline or mobile phone number ?

The PI seems to be able to "gather the info" for a fat fee so I assume he has someone who works in a call center for a phone company or something as I can't find anyway to reverse look up a phone number.

The last time I traced anyone via the net was a few years ago and I knew the persons name and roughly where they lived which made it easy. In this case my mate has 2 phone numbers and a first name and a rough location but it isn't coming up with anything.

In the US such lookups are very simple but here it appears not. I guess he could trawl the electoral register but what a chore.
 
ste_bla said:
reverse lookup is illegal in the uk except for the police*

*i think!
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I think you are right, however who would have access to the relevent details?
Could someone at say CPW use their terminal to reverse look up a mobile number?
 
it's illegal for anyone to do it without being licenced to do so
there are old releases from when it wasnt illegal, but these are obviously out of date and as such the number you're looking for may have changed hands
 
that old bt yahoo messenger/voip client used to have this feature and they offered it free for 2 month, i used it to look up many addresses and it worked
 
VIRII said:
I think you are right, however who would have access to the relevent details?
Could someone at say CPW use their terminal to reverse look up a mobile number?
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yes very easily i'd have thought as it's commonly the identifier for you as a customer

the old searches i mentioned only work if the number is directory listed as they basically just reversed the directory
 
Abraham said:
it's illegal for anyone to do it without being licenced to do so
there are old releases from when it wasnt illegal, but these are obviously out of date and as such the number you're looking for may have changed hands
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Yup the landline probably has but the mobile might not have and it would give me a starting point / surname - if it works for mobiles.

Anyway hypothetically speaking how would you go about tracing someone from their mobile or landline number knowing the village they live in and their first name?
 
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IIRC there used to be some UKDataDisc? Which was a DVD with the entire UK Electoral Role which was hackable to do what you wanted, but yes, it is illegal in the UK.
 
VIRII said:
Yup the landline probably has but the mobile might not have and it would give me a starting point / surname - if it works for mobiles.

Anyway hypothetically speaking how would you go about tracing someone from their mobile or landline number knowing the village they live in and their first name?
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if you're certain of name and have an idea of name then there's a very widely used tracing system available to a high percentage of nhs administrative staff

equally your original example would work but only if they're a cpw customer
anyone who worked at the network (which you could find out from the number - unless they ported it) could also look it up

but maybe the mobile is a pay as you go
 
SO the chances are that the PI has a range of people in various jobs who he bungs cash to for the odd sneaky reverse lookup?
 
more than likely
obviously the people doing it are breaching their privacy agreements etc, but especially with the nhs system (nsts) given enough info you can find someone in a couple of searches, especially if it's not a particularly common name
 
Highly illegal in the UK although during the mid to late 90's a firm called UK INFO released a cd with reverse searching and it was taken off the market.
Apparently they used old catalogue records.
 
dmpoole said:
Highly illegal in the UK although during the mid to late 90's a firm called UK INFO released a cd with reverse searching and it was taken off the market.
Apparently they used old catalogue records.
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I still have that CD but it is not of much use as it is so out of date :/
A GPS logger looks like a cheaper bet and a few door to door enquiries.
 
I used to work for BT and was approached about reverse number searching a few times, (I was even offered a carpet for a number once, never asked if it included fitting :D ), Never gave anyone the info though. They used to show us videos of what happened when people got this info. They used to involve shady looking characters and the police.

They took it VERY seriously.
 
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