Reverse Lookup Cell Number

While the idea of having our cell phone numbers bombarded with telemarketing calls is horrific, the good news is that it isn’t true. Cell phone numbers are not only published publicly the way landline phones are, but telemarketing to cell phones is also illegal. Continue Reading »

Popularity: 33% [?]

What exactly is pretexting?

Pretexting is the act of falsifying identity or lying to persuade a target to release information or perform an action. Pretexting is most commonly done over the telephone.

Pretexting is more than a simple lie as it often involves prior research and set up, using pieces of known information (e.g. date of birth, last bill amount) to establish legitimacy in the mind of the target (e.g. a credit card company representative).

The pretext is usually an invented scenario constructed by the assailant. The assailant may call the actual owner of the information saying they are the representative from the credit card company confirming some identifying or personal information. Continue Reading »

Popularity: 18% [?]

"Phone records" contain call logs (also known as "call records") and text logs (also known as "text records"). Cell phone records contain essentially the same information as landline phone records. A call log typically includes:

• Date
• Time
• Recipient phone number
• Recipient geographic location
• Duration of call

A text log includes:

• Date
• Time
• Recipient phone number

Reverse Phone Detective does not condone and is in no way affiliated with the sale of or misadvertising of selling phone records. Many sites claim they can provide phone records, but that’s just not the case. In addition, the sale of phone records to third parties is ILLEGAL. Who has my phone records? Continue Reading »

Popularity: 17% [?]

There are several ways someone can track you with GPS:

1. Your phone
2. External GPS Hardware
3. GPS software on your laptop or phone Continue Reading »
    Mail this post

   Popularity: 19% [?]

Caller identity changing allows a caller to input or choose the number that they wish to appear to be calling from. So for example, if someone were doing a good impersonation of the U.S. President and had the phone number for the White House, one could input that phone number into their caller ID spoofing product and appear to be calling from the White House. That is, the prankster’s unsuspecting victim will see the identifying number on her telephone caller ID, and it will be the U.S. White House identifier.

Caller ID spoofing originally developed for businesses wishing to appear to be local when in fact they were not. This is because customers tend to be more comfortable with local or regional folks than customer courtesy calls from, for example, Malaysia or India. Continue Reading »

Popularity: 20% [?]