This past week, I experienced several days where the phone rang multiple times throughout the day with a caller claiming I took an online survey about continuing my education. The caller claimed that they wanted to help me find courses to take. Knowing I hadn’t filled out any such survey about my education, I was curious and asked for the URL of the website. The caller simply ignored the question, thanked me for my time, and hung up. The first time it happened it was no big deal because stuff like that happens. Once the same number appeared, but with a different caller, multiple times throughout the day, and I experienced the same scenario I was annoyed.
Eventually I decided to perform a Google search for the phone number, and to my surprise, found multiple sites available where people were complaining about the same number, and the same situation. It was great to see others were having the same types of conversations, like I did, asking for the URL from the caller and getting no response. Thankfully after a couple of days of receiving about five phone calls a day from these people, the calls stopped.
Today’s MyFive is a collection of sites that allow you to lookup an unknown caller by their telephone number. Once you enter a number and they find a match, you can read comments from other people and contribute your own. Everybody, even those on the “Do Not Call” list, will still get unwanted calls on occassion. These sites will help you identify the callers and get more information on who they are and what they want when they call.
1. Who Called Us – www.whocalled.us
2. WhoCallsMe – http://whocallsme.com
3. 800Notes – http://800notes.com
4. Caller Complaints – http://callercomplaints.com
5. CallFerret – www.callferret.com
Thanks for the list, now we need another list where we can report these spam calls, and by reporting I mean some agency that will take action against them.
Nice list of Services.
Thanks
It would be nice if it was mentioned when an article is only relevant to one particular country. There are about 6 billion people who don’t live in the USA, after all.
NATIONAL DO NOT CALL REGISTRY works wonders…
….stops most tele-marketers.
[donotcall.gov]
No it doesn’t. Check out 800notes.com. You’ll see pages of complaints about Sears, various newspapers, calls from 800 Service, etc. All say the DNC doesn’t do a thing. The FCC does respond but your best bet is your state Attorney General.
We normally do point it out when something is U.S. only, but we forgot to do it on this one. Sorry.
I received a call from an unknown number earlier, and so I decided to try all of the listed sites. All except CallFerret.com gave me information about the received call. WhoCalled.us is very basic looking, however, out of all of the sites listed, it provided me the best and most upfront information.