8 Ways on How to Find Someone's Cell Phone Number for Free

Are you getting annoying calls from an unfamiliar number? Do you need to look up a who is calling you? This year, over 29% of calls were spam phone calls, and that percentage is expected to rise in 2019.

Thankfully, there are ways to find out who owns a mobile phone number, some methods are easy, some not so much. To try any of these methods, all you have to do is go on the internet.

1. Facebook

Did you realize that you can look for individual on Facebook by entering a phone number? By entering a phone number on the Facebook search bar, you may be able to find the profile of the person to which the number belongs to.

To do this, simply login to your Facebook account and enter in the phone number in question in Facebook search bar. If the phone number is associated with an account, that account will pull up. Additionally, if the phone number was ever shared in a Facebook post, that post will pop up as well too.

Unfortunately, most people have changed their privacy settings so that people can’t find them on Facebook that way or they don’t add their number to their profile at all. Some people don’t want other people to find a cell phone number on their profile, and that’s why they keep this information private.

Additionally, it is not guaranteed that you will get the most up to date, accurate data and that person may not have that number anymore. According to TrapCall, a phone number has to be deactivated for 90 days for another person to be able to use it, and phone companies are more than willing to use a phone number as soon as it passes that 90 day mark.

2. Answering The Phone or Calling Back

Regardless of what the circumstance is, it's never a good idea to answer an unknown phone number or call back on your cell phone. IIf your phone call is from a scammer or stalker, picking up the phone may put you in a dangerous situation. If it’s important, they will leave a voicemail.

Here are a few reasons that you should never pick up the phone when you are not sure whose number is calling:
  • It could be a scammer who has perfected the art of being a con artist.
  • It may be a telemarketer, and if you pick up they know your number is an active one and they will put it on their list.
  • It could be an ex or someone who is fixated on you and wants to hear your voice.
  • It could be a predator seeking a victim to prey on.
  • It could be from a one-ring phone scam.

It’s safe to say that it's not the best idea to answer an unknown call because you never know who is on the other end.

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3. Using A Reverse Phone Search To Find Cell Phone Numbers

Reverse phone search websites like National Cellular Directory are perfect for anyone because they specialize in people searching and finding cell phones numbers.

They offer 100% confidentiality when searching for a number and are far more convenient than playing guessing games with social media and search engines.

Doing a reverse phone search Is the most comfortable, most reliable and safest way to find out who is calling you.

What is a reverse phone search?

It’s a search where you enter in a phone number and National Cellular Directory’s database of billions of records will be scanned in moments. If we have information on the owner of that phone number, that information will be shown in the results.

Use The Toolbox Below To Perform A Reverse Phone Lookup Now!


Reverse Phone Lookup

Another amazing benefit to creating a free membership with National Cellular Directory is that they have a Happy Hour every day where you can do two premium cell phone searches for free of charge! That means that you can find the most recent and accurate information about a phone number at no cost to you!

Follow These steps to get a free people search:

  • Create an account on National Cellular Director.
  • Follow National Cellular Directory on Facebook or Twitter. They tweet (and post on FB) the next Happy Hour start and end time.
  • Run their free people search and get the answer you are looking for!

It’s that simple! And the best part is, you get to do it every day if you need to! Doing a reverse phone search will get you the name, address, city, state, other phone numbers that belong to an owner if available.

4. How to Use Google to Find Cell Phone Numbers

Google used to have a phonebook service, but it was taken down when people started wanting their information removed from the service. Therefore, Google isn’t the best choice for someone to look up another person’s number.

Even on the off-chance that Google has any information in regards to who has been calling you, it may not be reliable or up to date. I know it’s simple to lookup a phone number on Google. It’s certainly worth a try. However, don’t get your hopes up as it is more than likely that you won’t find any current owner information on the phone number n question.

5. Research The Area Code

The area code listed on the phone number that keeps calling you may give you more insight into what kind of call it is than you realize. Foreign area codes are most of the time scammers.

Toll-Free numbers like 800 or 844 are usually telemarketers. Always beware of toll-free numbers and calls coming from outside of the US. Also look at this list from Forbes to see the some international area codes that are unsafe.

Additionally, the area code will give insight into where someone lives. In the illustration below, you can see that 5.7 million cell phone numbers start with 917. If you look up that area code from a cell phone number, you will discover that the caller lives in New York City.

6. 800notes.com

This phone number database is built by its users. People share information on a call they receive. If other people have had a call from the number that is contacting you, they can report it on the website for you to view at your leisure.

This method will only work if the number is calling other people and at least one other person has reported the number to you.

Additionally, even if they report the number they might not have any more information than you already have on the number.

7. Pipl

Pipl does have a free phone search, but it doesn’t seem to have the most accurate, up-to-date data.

When entering my cell phone number, I was given old information about myself including my maiden name, (but not my married name) an old landline number (which was disconnected a few years back), a former address, and they had my age wrong by 16 years.

8. Whitepages

Whitepages claims to be free, but after it compiled my report, the website asked me to pay for the information is found on the number I provided.

It did not offer me the name, or even address of the person who owned the number. Something it did offer me for free was that it was a low-risk number and the general area of the owner’s location. I knew at that point that the number I searched was low risk, so that information was valuable. However, any other information that I wanted I had to pay for.

What’s The Best Choice?

There you have it, National Cellular Directory’s - Free Cell Phone Directory Happy Hour is the best way to search for who is calling you.

This is the only entirely free service that will give you accurate information in regards to who keeps harassing you.