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vk6tnc · Guru

Who Called Me ?

gordon_adl · Senior Member

What a fantastic web site! Thanks for the heads up on that one.

Grams · Guru

Oh good my number still doesn't come up lol

About 12 years ago when we had dial up for the Internet, we had two phone lines installed, one for the dial up and one for the phone. Then when ADSL broadband came in I got rid of the phone line and just used the number from the dial up line. So for the last 9 years we have never had our number appear in the telephone directory, in the book or via the on line services. It just doesn't exist according to Telstra (and no we are not with Telstra for either the phone or Internet).

So we never get scam calls, we never get unwanted business calls, nothing as are number is not listed anywhere with Telstra. I like this, especially when you here of people getting nuisance calls all the time.

But thanks for the reverse number web site, that will come in handy

sandsmere · Guru

Good site . Thank you .

Our mobiles and our private home number don't come up , and that suits us fine ! smile

I did try some listed numbers which came up, so it seems that private numbers are still protected .

03_troopy · Guru

not all of them sandsmere. Ours still shows up... not happy about that. It does say last listed in 2000, but still comes up with name and Suburb. Although this is not really a problem I suppose, because you can't get the details from typing in a name. It does explain how we still sometimes get calls from survey/sales call centres to an unlisted number though.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

The name and suburb is shown, then it asks to log into facebook to get more detail, including a google earth map of the persons address. This will be very interesting when we get weird calls!!!
Thank you Chris.

Cupie · Guru

Good site ... works for my landline but not my mobile .. That fine with me if used as 'intended'.

Sometimes get calls on our mobile from unknown numbers & I don't ring them back .. cost of STD calls the main issue. This gives me another avenue to decide whether to return the call.

Thanks for that ... got it bookmarked now.

grill n chill · Senior Member

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State libraries all have reverse phone books available on cd's and have for years. They are significantly more powerful than the link supplied. For example you fill in the state, then the street and suburb the result is every phone number and name in that street shows up on the report, with the exception of unlisted numbers, or fill in a street number and a state then everyone who lives at say number four within that state also has their name and number show up. Its a great search engine but i think boardering on invasion of privacy.

Kantiki · Senior Member

We pay for an unlisted number because of our occupations. Not happy that my number came up with name and location. Not exact address thank goodness.

Pete49 · Senior Member

it seems like only tel$tra numbers come up. When I try Virgin mobiles no luck. All good I'm not listed either

Pete