I have a mobile number and need to find out

[NickFRP]

I have a mobile number and need to find out who owns it. they have been rining me and hanging up. Just wondering if theres a website i can find out whos calling me

Thanks

[Dale19]

Give them the same treatment by posting said number on as many web pages as you can....

[groucho]

NickFRP said:

I have a mobile number and need to find out who owns it. they have been rining me and hanging up. Just wondering if theres a website i can find out whos calling me

Thanks

Not one of those call centres is it? It happened to me every day for two weeks.

[NickFRP]

no its a mobile number..

[CommanderJameson]

Ring them back?

[groucho]

NickFRP said:

no its a mobile number..

Not sure it's possible.

[spikeyhead]

Make up some cards

Leave them in London phone boxes.

[NickFRP]

CommanderJameson said:

Ring them back?

tried that.. wrs

[NickFRP]

this is a cool website:
http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/codelook.asp

[anonymous-user]

Have you tried a simple google? It's suprisingly effective with mobile numbers.

[CommanderJameson]

NickFRP said:

CommanderJameson said:

Ring them back?

tried that.. wrs

I take it they see your number and hang up on you.

Perhaps go to a phone box and ring them from there?

ETA: Or withhold your number. 144 + number, IIRC.

Edited by CommanderJameson on Saturday 16th August 12:43

[groucho]

Symbolica said:

Have you tried a simple google? It's suprisingly effective with mobile numbers.

T'is true, I just googled my number and it came up with me.

[Simond001]

070 number perhaps?

[Digger.]

141 witholds your number.

[deckster]

NickFRP said:

I have a mobile number and need to find out who owns it. they have been rining me and hanging up. Just wondering if theres a website i can find out whos calling me

Thanks

Are you 100% sure it's a mobile number? A number starting 070 looks like a mobile but is in fact a 'personal number' that can be forwarded to anything at all, including £1.50/min premium rate numbers. It's a fairly well-known scam to get a missed call from these numbers, hoping to get you to call back at which point you get onto a 'you are in a queue' type message loop until you give up - at £1.50/minute

[Simond001]

deckster said:

NickFRP said:

I have a mobile number and need to find out who owns it. they have been rining me and hanging up. Just wondering if theres a website i can find out whos calling me

Thanks

Are you 100% sure it's a mobile number? A number starting 070 looks like a mobile but is in fact a 'personal number' that can be forwarded to anything at all, including £1.50/min premium rate numbers. It's a fairly well-known scam to get a missed call from these numbers, hoping to get you to call back at which point you get onto a 'you are in a queue' type message loop until you give up - at £1.50/minute

the 070 call will cost approx 50pence per minute. Some are charged per call at 50 pence, so dialling and connecting will genereate the 50p charge.

there is an element of the industry that dials mobiles / landlines and shows these as the CLOP, enticing a return call. very naughty!

Happy to advise what the number is and who owns it if this is an 070 number.

Onward call on these numbers isnt popular as rebates are very hard to generate without an a number, and you would need to mask the a to prevent duplicity on the billing.

[ab@]

NickFRP said:

this is a cool website:
http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/codelook.asp

Only it doesnt give the correct details...

[Brown and Boris]

Put it into the Confused.com and all the other type web sites saying the insurance is due up in the next week. They won't have time to bother you again between receiving calls from More Than.

Alternatively switchiot off for a few days until they get fed up.

[Simond001]

ab@ said:

NickFRP said:

this is a cool website:
http://www.magsys.co.uk/telecom/codelook.asp

Only it doesnt give the correct details...

Mobile details will frequently be wrong due to number portability. This will only ever show the originating provider for a mobile number.

It is the same with geographic numbers or NGN's that have been moved to alternative providers.

As the OP hasnt given any numbers to check I'm assuming it isnt that much of a problem for him.