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Track Down Whoever Keeps Calling with 800Notes
US-centric: Tired of getting phone calls from the same 800-type phone number, but have no idea who's calling? 800Notes, a free user-submitted reverse phone directory, lets you see who might be ringing, whether it's a sales firm, debt collection agency, or other cloaked caller. Whether or not you find a match depends on if anybody else has reported the identity of the caller, but many of the matches have useful information, like a caller's experience in trying to get the other end to stop calling. For those who've recently changed numbers or seem to attract false debt collection calls, it's definitely worth a bookmark for when Google searching fails.
Tags: annoyances | brief | phone | phone support | phones | telephony
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Biggrz
Posted 2:20 AM 26/2/08
I've used this a couple of times now to alert others to fraudulant calls. I kept getting a call from someone spoofing thier caller ID and pretending to be the local police and figured out I wasn't the only one after looking at this site.
Biggrz
magnoliasouth
Posted 3:36 AM 26/2/08
Excellent! I'm so happy to see a user database of numbers.
Although it's important that everyone know how to actually report illegal calls as well. You can file an online Form 1088 [esupport.fcc.gov] with the FCC for things such as fax machine calls, when no one says anything when you answer, calls/text messages to your cell phone and so forth.
Also, everyone should seriously consider adding themselves to the Do Not Call list [www.donotcall.gov.] While illegal calls will still get through, it cuts out A LOT of the unsolicited sales calls.
magnoliasouth
SeanOHara
Posted 4:24 AM 26/2/08
I normally just plug phone numbers into Google, and 9 times out of 10 this is the first site to pop up. It has enough information about callers that, if you're so inclined, you can really screw with them.
SeanOHara
hansonc
Posted 4:24 AM 26/2/08
I'm a fan of whocalled.us myself
hansonc
MercuryPDX
Posted 8:55 AM 26/2/08
@SeanOHara: Just did that this morning. Turns out my "prank caller" was the Qwest Autodialer.
MercuryPDX
clking
Posted 8:55 AM 26/2/08
Don't forget www.whocalled.us which has been around for a while.
clking
tvjames
Posted 9:47 AM 26/2/08
Yeah, I like whocalled.us.
tvjames