Canadian Reverse LookupReverse Phone and Address Lookup Information

From the AnyWho FAQ:

Q: Where does AnyWho get the directory information?

A: All of the residential white pages are public information
obtained from local telephone records for published telephone
listings. Non-Published directory assistance records are not
provided and are not displayed. None of the listings
contained in the white pages are obtained from AT&T billing
records.

If you would like to opt out of the AnyWho Directory, you must send a letter to the following address:
ATT AnyWho Directory Service
Attention: Listing Removals
P.O. Box 944028
Maitland, FL 32794-4028

To read more information on how to opt out of the AnyWho Directory, check out their Privacy Listing Process.

I’ve added information about the reverse lookup services that SuperPages.ca offers to the appropriate pages here on Canadian Reverse Lookup.

SuperPages.ca offers some interesting lookup options. For example, their Business Finder allows you to find all businesses at a certain address, or even on the whole street. If you want to look by postal codes instead of addresses, you can! And you can find all businesses within a specific postal code, or in a range of postal codes.

I think these are great marketting lookup tools, to see what businesses are in your area.

I’ve added the 411.ca reverse lookup services to their appropriate sections of the Reverse lookup Canadian addresses, area codes, and postal codes page and the Reverse lookup Canadian phone numbers page.

The 411.ca services seem to piggy-back off of WhitePages.ca. I’m not sure if the results are exactly the same, but some people may find that the services are easier to use and navigate through.

The services that are offered are: reverse phone lookup, reverse address lookup, reverse area code lookup, and reverse postal code lookup.

So, we’ve been posting information lately on how you can use Google Phonebook to reverse lookup phone numbers. But what do you if you don’t want your phone number in the Google Phonebook directory?! You can opt out, that’s what.

To opt out of Google Phonebook, check out the below website:
http://www.google.com/help/pbremoval.html

Basically, how to opt out of the Google Phone book depends on whether or not you’re removing a residential listing or a business listing. If it’s a residential listing, then you can fill out the form on the above web page. If it’s a business listing, you must mail a letter on signed letterhead to the below address:

Google Phonebook Removal
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

But, even if you remove your phone number from Google Phonebook, it’ll still be in other directories. Here’s a warning from Google:

IMPORTANT NOTE: Removing your phonebook listing will not remove your personal information from other pages on the web or from other reverse phone listing lookup services, such as:
Anywho
Switchboard.com
Whitepages.com
Reverse Phone Directory
Phonenumber.com
Smartpages.com

Hack #17 in the O’Reilly book Google Hacks is called “Consulting the Phonebook.”

The hack goes indepth and explains the three different syntaxes that Google supports when performing phone number lookups:

• phonebook - searches the entire Google phonebook
• rphonebook - searches residential listings only
• bphonebook - searches business listings only

The authors also offer a number of tips scattered throughout the hack, such as when to use each of the above different types of searches.

If you are interested in doing reverse phone number lookups, Google Phonebook supports this as well. Here’s an example of how to do a reverse phone number lookup:

phonebook:(707) 829-0515

If you are interested in reading more about Hack #17 called “Consulting the Phonebook”, continue on over to the O’Reilly website.

Google is such a powerful tool. With only a few keystrokes and mouse clicks, you can have someone’s complete biography and contact information. So, it should be of no surprise that more and more people are using Google as a first line of defence before going out on a first date.

When it comes to modern courtship, cyber-stalking is increasingly part of the pre-date preparation.

About 43 percent of people who answered a dating-service survey said they type their date’s name into the Google search engine before they go out. And 88 percent of those people said they wouldn’t be bothered if their dates did the same thing.

The above quote is from an article on AZCentral called “Googling as dating protection.” Basically, it’s reporting on a study from a few years ago that suggests that as many as half of people that actively date use the search engine to check out a prospective date before going out for real. Sometimes this allows the searcher to learn positive things about their date, but often times also negative things.

This article complements another tip that we previously posted that suggests using Google as your first option when doing reverse lookups of all kinds. Many people use Google to perform reverse lookups of phone numbers, email addresses, and even home addresses.

To read the rest of the article, continue on to AZCentral.

Do you need to locate someone and all you have is a phone number? Did you know that it is possible to take advantage of many online tools, some of them free, in order to do a reverse phone number search and find the name and address of the person that you are looking for.

The first thing you need to do is to determine whether or not the phone number of the person is a landline or a cell phone number. Fonefinder.net is a free tool that allows you to quickly find this out.

The next step is to use Google. One of the best sources to do a free reverse look-up for landline numbers is the Google search engine. If you type in the phone number in the format (XXX) XXX-XXXX, the name and address of the owner will often come up in the search engine results. This is often all that is necessary to find the information that you are looking for but if this does not produce a result then there are other tools to consider.

Some of these services are available for free. Here are a few to consider:

Anywho
http://www.anywho.com/rl.html
This site also allows you to type in a phone number for free
and search for a matching name and address.

PhoneNumber.com
http://www.phonenumber.com/reverse_phone.xhtml

SmartPages.com
http://www.smartpages.com/whitepages/?wppage=reverse-phone

Whitepages.com
http://www.whitepages.com/1129/reverse-phone

Reverse Phone Directory
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/
This site allows you to search one phone number in several different online directories, including “White Pages,” “Phone Number,” and “InfoSpace.”

Please bear in mind that the information is only available of the name of the person to whom the phone number is registered. Also none of these sites provide information for cell phone numbers or unlisted numbers.

Okay, so how then do we go about locating the owner of an unlisted number? And what about cell phones - is it possible to find out who a particular cell phone number belongs to? Reverse cell phone lookup has always been more difficult than reversing landline numbers.

Well you could consider one of the many commercial “private detective services” that will help locate someone for you. Prices vary but typically you could pay $85 or more for this type of service. Usually the company will offer a refund if they cannot obtain the information for you.

There is one another option and that is to become your own private detective! The key here is to learn how to access the various online databases that are used by private investigators, law firms, police departments, businesses and individuals all around the world. Examples of some of these online databases include State and County public records, Court records, credit reports and so on. These records will often yield the information that you are looking for.

Irene Graham writes for www.Ist-Web-Detective.com where you can learn more about how to reverse lookup phone numbers Please feel free to use this article in your Newsletter or on your website. If you use this article, please include the resource box.

Skipease, a blog dedicated to “skip tracing, public records, and investigation”, suggests this tip:

One of the best ways for doing reverse lookups on unpublished phone numbers; addresses; cell phone numbers and email addresses is to look for them on the major search engines.

Continue on to Skipease and read the whole tip.

I have added information about the WhitePages.ca reverse phone lookup directory to the National section of the Reverse lookup Canadian addresses page.

The service is free to use and is able to reverse lookup regular phone numbers, toll-free numbers and numbers with characters.

Update: I have gone ahead and have added even more information to the Reverse loojup Canadian address page. There are now sections covering reverse lookups of area codes and postal codes. Since WhitePages.ca offers all of these services, they have been added under each of the sections with a brief description of the service.

I’ve just created two new pages for the Canadian Reverse Lookup website:

• Reverse lookup Canadian phone numbers
• Reverse lookup Canadian addresses

These two pages will be populated with resources related to Canadian reverse lookups. As I discover and evaluate websites and companies that offer reverse lookup websites, I’ll add them to the two pages.

Stay tuned!