There are many services on the Internet for collecting information on a person. Input data for the search can be the following: phone number, full name, address, nickname, email, car number. In most cases, this is done for a fee, for money. But in this article, I would like to share how you can do it yourself, using open Internet sources and completely free of charge.
You can learn about the technology for obtaining information about a person, ways to search for a phone number by name or photo, here.
There can be many reasons for collecting information, e.g. It is always useful to find out what the employee who submitted a resume is like and, conversely, to obtain information about the employer before concluding an employment contract. Find a friend or new acquaintance whose name and phone number you couldn’t find out at the first meeting. To break through to a business partner, buyer/seller in a real estate or car transaction. And other options.
If you have incomplete information about a person: photo, nickname, phone number, mutual friends or acquaintances, then finding the person is quite possible. The main thing is to know how to search for a person on the Internet. In this case, some technical capabilities of Internet services and social networks are used, without violating the laws of the country in which you live.
1.Search for a person by photo.
You can find a person’s account on a social network simply by uploading their photo. This can be done using the FindFace service. Currently, with an accuracy of about 70%, the service displays information on several versions of pages on the VKontatka and Odnoklassniki networks based on an uploaded photo of a person’s face. For maximum accuracy, it is necessary to use a high-quality frontal photo of the person and indicate the parameters of his search: approximate age and region of residence. Link to FindFace in Odnoklassniki https://ok.ru/findface. There is also such an opportunity on Facebook.
An effective way to search for a person by photo.
You can also search by image file in a special section of Google
and
Yandex
.
To search for a person by image, there are currently several other Internet services. The most famous globally are TinEye.com and Pictriev.com, but they are searched well only on foreign sites.
In general, searching for people by photo is not very effective, due to the fact that there is no good algorithm for analyzing new photos; the search is mainly based on duplicate images. Therefore, it is worth analyzing the photo yourself. Carefully check small details, objects, signs, houses, people, in order to find some clue that will make it clear which way is easier to find the necessary information.
2.Search for a person through News in a Group on a social network.
Automated photo search systems like FindFace are easy to use, but do not always give the desired result. Humans are still smarter than AI. In this regard, it is always worth asking people for help: members of online communities and groups on social networks.
We are looking for a person through groups on social media. networks.
How to do it? Analyze which group on the social network the wanted person may belong to. Subscribe to this group, for example on the vk.com network and click the “Suggest news” button. In the text field, write a request for help in finding a person and attach a file of his photo to the message. If the group moderator approves your News, then your message will be seen by many people, perhaps someone will recognize the person from the photo and respond.
3.Search for acquaintances through acquaintances.
There is a theory that you can reach any stranger through people you know. Moreover, the search chain will have a maximum of 6 people. Taking into account the fact that nowadays you can communicate without leaving home through social networks or instant messengers such as WhatsAp and Viber, finding a person through friends is not so difficult. Just write to users on the Internet who potentially know the person you are looking for or ask their friends to find out about him. Some kind of dating chain should lead you to the right person.
4. How to find a person if you know the First and Last Name
When searching for a person by Last Name, First Name and Patronymic, the most obvious way is to search through the social network VK, Odnoklassniki, Facebook. But not everything is so simple here; there are some peculiarities. There can be hundreds and thousands of namesakes; success will be more likely if the surname of the person being sought is very rare.
When searching for a person on a social network, you should refine the search by entering information about the city and country of residence, place of study, and the person’s preferences. It makes sense to know the acquaintances or relatives of a girl or guy to ask for a link to a personal page on the Internet. If there are parent accounts, then in any case they communicate with their child via the Internet.
Find a person by First and Last Name.
Yandex search network
there is a special section
People
, here by entering your name, age, region of residence, place of work or study, you can find a profile on social networks: Instagram, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, My World, My Circle, LiveJournal, Fourscvear, LinkedIn. In total, the search can be carried out through 16 networks by nickname and name. But the Yandex People service only works with open pages; networks that require a login and password are not available for it.
220vk.com
- a site that opens closed profiles on VK.com.
Here you can also search by ID or short account name among hidden social network profiles. The site vk.city4me.com works similarly .
Don't forget to check the required Skype profile .
Now almost every person has an account in the SIP messenger Skype.
When loading the program, there is a search field in the upper right corner. We fill in the First Name, Last Name and City, if it is not known, then there will be a lot of results. If you're lucky, you can use avatars to find a missing person. Archive.org.
— an Internet service that makes backups of all pages on the Internet several times a year or more often. By going to the archive of the page of the wanted person, you can read the information that he published earlier, and has now deleted. Or if his profile was previously open, but is currently closed from outsiders and completely removed from a social network or other Internet resource, for example LiveJournal, Facebook, Twitter.
Search in the comments.
Google or Yandex search engines allow you to search for information by mask. For example, if in a regular Google search you write a query like: First name Last name inurl:vk.com/wall, then you can see all the comments published on the walls of all users of the VK network, provided: if they contain the first name and last name of the person you are looking for. Similarly, the same can be done in Yandex. Another tip: instead of First Name and Last Name, you can write another key phrase, instead of vk.com/wall, another Internet address, for example LiveJournal, and see the corresponding comments.
Several links on searching for missing people.
Findme.mos.ru
— a database created for patients of city hospitals in Moscow. If a person was admitted to the hospital and did not provide information about himself or, on the contrary, wanted to publish information about his stay in the hospital, then such a person can be found through this site. This includes information about patients in capital hospitals who, during hospitalization, were unable to provide information about themselves or contact information of their loved ones. These may be minors who cannot explain to the staff of a medical institution how to contact their parents.
Media, billboards, TV program “Wait for me.”
In the most hopeless case and when you really need to find a person, money is not an issue. Then you can use the media when searching for missing people. This can be done not only through the well-known “Wait for me” program. With such a search, places for advertisements in popular newspapers and magazines of the desired region are purchased. Large advertisements on street billboards promising a reward for information about a wanted person have a good effect.
5.How to find a person through his email address.
5.1.If you have a valid email address, then the easiest way to determine whose it is is to start corresponding with it. By the style of writing and by the information received during correspondence, you can find out a lot of additional information characterizing a person. Including: gender, age, place of residence, education, place of study, profession, place of work, hobbies, desires. All this data will help in finding a person through social networks.
5.2.Search via PS Yandex, Google. Perhaps the email address was listed somewhere in publications on the Internet. Also, don’t forget the web archive Archive.org. If the email address consists of a first and last name, this makes the search even easier. Perhaps the email name is the person’s nickname, through which you can also search for an account on a social network.
Search for a person via his Email.
You need to understand that when a person comes up with an email address, he does it with a certain meaning. Perhaps the numbers in the mail name are the year of birth. Perhaps the name of the mail is related to the place of work or study, or other options. Perhaps the email address is corporate and created using a specific mask, which contains the name of the company, department, group, or has an unusual domain. Then you can try to write a letter to a nearby email, a friend of the wanted person or a work colleague and make inquiries about him.
5.3.Search via Social Networks. Similarly, in social networks: VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, My World and others, enter the email address into the search bar. If a person made publications and left his contacts, then the search will show where on what page and who did it. If it doesn’t help, then you can use the data recovery procedure to make sure that there is an account under this Email on the social network, this will give you the opportunity to take the next steps. Here you can find out part of the mobile phone number to which the account is attached, and different numbers may be hidden and revealed on different social networks. This makes it possible to compile a list of possible options for a person’s telephone number. If you do this on Facebook, you will see the user’s photo on the password recovery page and then search by photo.
The social network VKontakte has such a feature: the system automatically imports all contacts of its users into the Google cloud service. In order to see the contacts of the person you need, go to a social network, add the Email of the person you are looking for to your contacts list. Then go here
or
here
and in the side column on the right, click the “Google - Find friends through Google services” button. The system will log into the Google server and import data associated with this email. You may be given the address of a person’s personal page on a social network.
The fastest way
Using a combination of numbers, you can determine which mobile operator the number belongs to, as well as find out the region.
You can find out in just a few seconds in which region of Russia or country a phone number is registered using specialized websites online. You only need to enter a combination of numbers into the search window and click the “Find” or “Define” button.
There are many similar sites. Among them, those that provide the maximum available data are recommended, i.e. not only a region in Russia or a country, but also a city, the name of the mobile operator.
Among these services:
- spravportal.ru;
- tele-house.ru;
- kody.su;
- protarif.info.
The procedure for identifying a number via the Internet
When determining, it is worth paying attention to the fact that not so long ago it became possible to switch to another operator without changing the number. If he was, for example, a Megafon subscriber, upon entering the information, the system will also indicate that he belongs to Megafon.
The Internet is used for various purposes. And one of them is the ability to use verification services. To use it and get an answer to the required question, you should follow the following algorithm:
- log in to the required portal. Simply enter the query “check operator by number” in the search bar;
- Once a service is selected, the required information is entered. Typically these are the first 3 or 6 digits;
- then press the “search” key;
- The required response to the request will appear on the screen.
Sometimes it is very useful to find out the region by mobile number. Knowing who called you, you can at least save money on the subscriber’s balance. In addition, this will ensure security, since without calling back to an unfamiliar number, the person will remain protected. Use what was developed for you by professionals.
6.If the nickname is known.
Very often, the email address does not contain a real last name and first name () but a nickname like If this is the case, then you need to search for a person using the nickname marusyi2000 or marusyi. Find out how to do this below.
And vice versa, knowing the nickname, for example marusyi2000, you can add the name of the mail domain to it and send a letter to this address: , , etc. Maybe you'll get lucky and the letter will reach the right recipient.
Search engines Google and Yandex.
Many people write their nickname on their social media pages along with their real first and last name. How to search by nickname in search engines? Just enter your nickname in Google, Yandex, VK, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, Mail.ru, Odnoklassniki and see the results. If there are a lot of options for this nickname, then you will need additional information in order to weed out unnecessary options. It would be good to know the description of the appearance in order to determine the correct account.
How to find a person on Skype and add him to your contact list.
And one more tip: in Yandex, to search in vk.com, you must enter the following code into the request: “site:vk.com inurl:nick” (where nickname is the nickname of the person you are looking for. Instead of vk.com, you can write another site.).
Forums.
If search engines using the nickname you entered lead you to the forums, then here you need to immediately go to the profile of a user registered on the forum with a similar nickname, and look at his city of residence, phone number or email address. After analyzing this information, you can narrow your search. Here on the forum you can use the form to send messages, for private communication or for public communication. It’s also worth looking at a person’s list of friends and talking to them. They can tell you the person's real name, address or phone number.
Skype.
It has been noticed that people prefer to use the same login or nickname to log into different Internet services. Knowing the nickname, you can search for a person on Skype. Likewise, go to Skype and enter his nickname in the search. There will most likely be a lot of results. But if, at the previous stages of the search, you received information about your city of residence, or have a photo, full name, then you can quickly get in touch with this Skype user. If there is no such data yet, then return to the search results later.
7.Alternative search engines.
Namechk.com.
This Internet service has a database of more than a hundred sites, including sites and forums that are not accessed by Google and Yandex search engines.
Pipl.com.
The largest server for searching for people by phone number, email, nickname or full name.
Login.stop-list.info.
A search engine that looks for accounts by nickname in different social networks.
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Free services
Some sites and services not only help you find out where the call came from, but also provide other useful functions:
- On the website spravportal.ru you can see on a map the location of the region from which the call came.
- The data identifier for Russian subscribers “Kto-zvonit.rf” contains an extensive database of visitor comments about numbers used by scammers and advertising spammers.
- The free service protarif.info offers to install the application of the same name on your mobile phone to see information about the region during an incoming call.
Most sites offer users complete directories and databases of telephone numbers by operator codes and names, as well as by cities and regions of Russia.
8.If the phone number is known.
Finding a person by phone number is, paradoxically, easier than by name or email due to the greater number of tools.
Social networks and instant messengers.
You can search for a person by phone number on social networks through the search field. To search in the Whatsap and Viber messengers, you must first enter the phone number in the Contacts application on your mobile phone, and then open the Whatsap or Viber program and see if this contact appears in the program. If he exists, you can look at his name and avatar, and if you’re lucky, the avatar will be a photo of the wanted person. Further, having a name and photo, you can narrow the search for the wanted person in other ways.
How to find out your full name with a phone number.
You can find out whether a given phone number is registered on any account on a social network through the procedure for recovering the password of a page on a social network associated with this phone number.
Numbuster app.
Numbuster can find a person registered on social networks in different countries of the world, incl. CIS and USA, by mobile phone number. You can attach a public message or make a review to a mobile phone number in the program and, accordingly, see reviews about this phone number made by other users of the Numbuster application.
Reasons for searching for a contact
Finding a mobile phone number by full name may be required in different situations. Here are the most common:
- the contact was accidentally lost, but is very important for the subscriber, so it needs to be restored - the number may belong to a close friend or relative;
- a search is made for a lost child or a person over whom guardianship has been granted for one reason or another;
- the owner of the number may be wanted or declared missing;
- the subscriber is looking for a scammer and wants to find out his real contact information.
There may be other situations that force a person to look for someone else's phone number. But it is not always possible to find out any information for free in each of them. Let's take a closer look at all existing search methods.
9.Additional links and services.
Service 09 or 009.
If you know a person’s full name and address, but don’t know their telephone number, you can contact the free helpline 09. And by calling +7 009 (a paid service), you can call the person by address and last name and connect with him. But there is one nuance: the help desk operator first asks the called subscriber if he agrees to answer the call, and only if he agrees will he connect you.
Popular telephone directory tel09.com.
This is a conditionally free Internet service through which you can find the address and full name of the phone owner using a phone number, or vice versa, knowing the address and last name, calculate the phone number. If the search is successful, if the information you need is in the database, it will be displayed in a truncated form. In order to watch the full version, you will have to pay.
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Operator codes
Below are the codes assigned to federal cellular operators:
| Operator | Code |
| MTS | 902, 904, 908, 910, 911, 912, 913, 914, 915, 916, 917, 918, 919, 950, 978, 980, 981, 982, 983, 984, 985, 986, 987, 988, 989. |
| Beeline | 900, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 908, 909, 950, 951, 953, 960, 961, 962, 963, 964, 965, 966, 967, 968, 969, 980, 983, 986 |
| Megaphone | 902, 904, 908, 920, 921, 922, 923, 924, 925, 926, 927, 928, 929, 930, 931, 932, 933, 934, 936, 937, 938, 939, 950, 999 |
| Iota | 958, 999 |
| Tele 2 | 900-902, 904, 908, 950-953, 958, 977, 992, 994, 996, 999 |
It is worth saying that these combinations of numbers cannot provide the user with any accurate information related to the geolocation of another subscriber: for example, the def code (996) is intended for approximately 40 regions of our country in which Yota services are provided.
Also, some of the presented series are divided between the Big Three operators and regional communication providers, that is, for example, the owner of the number +7 (900) ХХХ-ХХ-ХХ can be a subscriber of both Tele2 and Ekaterinburg Motiv.
To identify an incoming call, you should pay attention not to the first 3 digits, but to the first 5 (sometimes even 7) - in this case, the search region will be significantly narrowed, and the user will be able to find at least approximate information about the location of the caller.
Of course, it’s unlikely that anyone will enjoy manually scrolling through a long list of five-digit numbers, so to quickly and accurately determine a location by mobile number, you should use special online services (RegionOperator or IndexMain.ru).
10. Search for information about the employer.
When applying for a job, an employee needs to be vigilant. The employer does not always fulfill what he promised when hiring. After getting a job, a person can expect surprises in the form of unpaid wages and violations of working conditions. In this case, lost time, strength and health cannot be returned. This means that before a job interview, you should check the company for reliability and read employee reviews about it.
Unified State Register of Legal Entities Unified State Register of Legal Entities.
On the website of the Tax Inspectorate of the Russian Federation, you can enter the OGRN or INN of the employer and find out whether this is a real legal entity (IP). View the company's registration date, field of activity, its founders and other information. Based on this information, you can draw certain conclusions about the reliability of the company or legal entity.
Employer information search statistics.
Contour.Focus.
A service for searching for organizations, people and checking their reliability and solvency. The service for breaking through a legal entity, individual entrepreneur, or counterparty is paid, but there is a free demo version that allows you to use the system for free for 24 hours.
Employee reviews.
Subjective information about the management of the company, its superiors and subordinates can be found out from employee reviews on job search portals: hh.ru, rabota.yandex.ru, rabota.ru, zarplata.ru, superjob.ru, avito.ru and others. There are specialized services for employee reviews of employers: .
If at first glance everything seemed normal with the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, it would be useful to find out the opinions of future and failed colleagues about the place of work. A legally clean company may in reality turn out to be a branch of hell on earth. You can find out the truth, albeit subjective, on the resources pravda-sotrudnikov.ru and Tipworker.ru, zachestnyibiznes.ru.
Law enforcement
The most reliable way to get through a phone number is considered to be the help of law enforcement agencies. But to obtain information about the right person, there must be good reasons for this, for example, when searching for a missing person, in the case of various criminal offenses, etc.
Pros:
- 100% efficiency;
- Quick search;
- Updated databases.
Minuses:
- You need serious reasons to push for information;
- Employees may not provide the number;
- Information is provided to relatives.
Law enforcement agencies have constantly updated databases, thanks to which you can quickly find the right person and detailed information about the place of residence, field of activity, contacts, marital status, etc. Unfortunately, not everyone can resort to their help.
11. We are looking for information about the seller of a car, apartment, product.
Let's imagine a situation: you found an advertisement for the sale of a car. Now you need to find out as much information as possible about this vehicle and its owner. You have initial information: the owner’s phone number, his name and possibly a photo.
We get through the seller.
First, enter the phone number into instant messengers: Whatsapp, Viber, Telegram. We confirm that the person is real, the full name is the same, and the photo of the person is the same. Next, we break through the phone through Pipl.com and Numbuster.com. Using TinEye and FindFace we look for a person using a photo. Now having a photo, full name of the person, city of residence and mobile phone number, you can try to find his account on social networks: VK, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, My World. By visiting the seller’s page on a social network, you can understand who this person is and who you will have to deal with. And if you have the address of a person’s page from vk.com, then through the vk.city4me.com service you can get additional information about the wanted person.
How to find out information about the seller and the object being sold.
We break through the car.
If the seller posted photos of his car on avito or other message boards and then deleted them, then these photos can be viewed using the Archive.org website. Here we enter the url of the page with the ad into the search bar and see the old appearance of the page, the dynamics of changes in information, the appearance and removal of pictures, text, descriptions of the object on a given date. In this way, you can find previously published photos of the car, the previous description of the sale and from it you can find out: the state number and VIN.
If you have a car’s VIN, you can get it on the traffic police website. This is the official state online service of the traffic police.
Here you can use the VIN number to determine: the vehicle’s registration history with the traffic police, its participation in road accidents, check whether it is wanted and whether there are any restrictions on sale.
In the vehicle pledge register,
We will find out whether the car is pledged.
And on this site,
you can get information about the availability of an MTPL policy for a given car.
In the same way, having a minimum of data about a person, you can identify the seller of an apartment and other movable or immovable property.
Region codes for Russian telephones by city
The list is presented not in alphabetical order of the names of the regions, but in numerical ascending order, so that by the code numbers you can quickly find out which region of Russia a given code belongs to:
- 301 - Republic of Buryatia
- 302 - Buryat Autonomous Okrug
- 302 - Chita region
- 341 – Republic of Udmurtia
- 342 - Perm region
- 343 - Sverdlovsk region
- 345, 346 — Tyumen region
- 347 - Republic of Bashkortostan
- 349 – Yamalo-Nenets District
- 351 — Chelyabinsk region
- 352 – Kurgan region
- 353 - Orenburg region
- 381 — Omsk region
- 382 - Tomsk region
- 383 - Novosibirsk region
- 384 - Kemerovo region
- 385 - Altai Territory
- 388 - Altai Republic
- 390 – Republic of Khakassia
- 391 — Krasnoyarsk region
- 394 – Republic of Tyva
- 395 — Irkutsk region
- 401 - Kaliningrad region
- 411 - Republic of Yakutia (Sakha)
- 413 - Magadan region
- 415 – Kamchatka
- 416 - Amur region
- 421 — Khabarovsk Territory
- 423 - Primorsky Krai
- 424 – Sakhalin
- 426 - Jewish region
- 427 – Chukotka
- 471 – Kursk region
- 472 - Belgorod region
- 473 - Voronezh region
- 474 — Lipetsk region
- 475 - Tambov region
- 481 — Smolensk region
- 482 - Tver region
- 483 - Bryansk region
- 484 - Kaluga region
- 485 - Yaroslavl region
- 486 - Oryol region
- 487 - Tula region
- 491 - Ryazan region
- 492 - Vladimir region
- 493 - Ivanovo region
- 494 - Kostroma region
- 495 — Moscow
- 495, 496 — Moscow region
- 811 - Pskov region
- 812, 813 — Leningrad region
- 814 – Republic of Karelia
- 814, 818 — Arkhangelsk region
- 815 – Murmansk region
- 816 - Novgorod region
- 817, 820, 844 — Vologda region
- 818 - Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- 821 – Komi Republic
- 831 - Nizhny Novgorod region
- 833 - Kirov region
- 834 – Republic of Mordovia
- 835 – Republic of Chuvashia
- 836 – Republic of Mari El
- 841 - Penza region
- 842 - Ulyanovsk region
- 843, 855 — Republic of Tatarstan
- 844 - Volgograd region
- 845 - Saratov region
- 846, 848 — Samara region
- 847 - Republic of Kalmykia
- 851 - Astrakhan region
- 861, 862 — Krasnodar region
- 863 - Rostov region
- 863, 865, 879 — Stavropol Territory
- 866 - Kabardino-Balkarian Republic
- 867 - Republic of North Ossetia (Alania)
- 871 - Chechen Republic
- 872 - Republic of Dagestan
- 873 - Republic of Ingushetia
- 877 - Republic of Adygea
- 878 – Karachay-Cherkessia
Now you know how to determine the region and mobile operator for free using a mobile phone number.
12.An example of searching for a person on the network.
Let's take this situation as an example. You have a friend who once had a page on Odnoklassniki. But now this page is abandoned, no one visits it or it has been completely deleted. Where to start your search?
First, we try searching by first and last name on social networks, but there are so many options that there is no point in browsing through them. Additional information is needed to filter the sample, but it is not available yet.
We move on to searching for this person’s acquaintances, so that through them we can reach the wanted person. The archive.org service (Wayback Machine section) will help us here. We drive into it an old page from Vkontakte.ru (or another social network) and look at the archive of page changes. We definitely need to find the nickname or full name of an acquaintance or friend of the wanted person.
How to find a person on the Internet.
Suppose a search on archive.org did not produce results, Yandex and Google did not either.
Think about what else you can get hold of in order to reach your friend’s acquaintances. The search area can be different: work, publishing articles, selling an apartment, car, recreation, repairs, sports, hobbies. This person may have friends, acquaintances, work or business colleagues everywhere.
Let's say you remember that a couple of years ago, the disappeared person shared with you a link to the publication of his classmate. Follow this link. Next, we go to the author’s account, but we only see his nickname. We write a letter to the author of the article, but he does not respond to the message. We contact his friends from the forum, but they cannot or refuse to help.
Next, we work with the nickname of the author of the article. We enter the nickname in the services namechk.com, Pipl.com and login.stop-list.info. Here we were lucky, we found a name associated with this nickname.
Now, by entering nickname and First Name (full name) of a person in the Yandex (Google) search, we find more publications of this person’s articles on the Internet.
Now it's much easier. We analyze these sites, publications and contact the people mentioned on these pages. One of the people gives us a link to the author’s page on the social network. We write to the author of the article and find out from him about your friend, his contacts or social accounts. networks.
Why do you need our service?
Today, in order to obtain information about a person, you do not need to make a lot of effort - people themselves voluntarily disclose their data, for example:
- When registering on a social network, when phone numbers, location, city and region can be found on the user’s page, finding out who exactly it belongs to;
- Submitting free or other advertisements on special resources;
- By informing about yourself when filling out various forms, when any discounts are offered in exchange for information about yourself.
Using these and other methods, scammers can check a person, search for the owner and select a circle of victims in the desired region or city, find out the personal information of the owner of the mobile phone and start calling and sending SMS, trying to find out confidential data of plastic cards or simply advertising their products and services .
Typical telephone scams
If a landline or cell phone number is unfamiliar to you, then you should be very critical of everything that is said by the person on the other end of the line. As a rule, SIM cards of mobile phones are constantly changing for fraud, so when searching on the Internet who owns a certain number, it is not always possible to find the latest information and data about the owner or the nature of his intentions. The call often comes from another region, so the risks for the criminal are minimal.
Frequent methods of deception are:
- In 2021, the main trend remains a call allegedly from a bank employee reporting a suspicious payment. Criminals have learned to optimize their work, and at the first stage a humanoid robot can speak, which then switches to the operator. Do not give out any of your card details or personal information and end the call immediately.
- Calls allegedly from police officers who are calling to return money that was once stolen from the user are still trending.
- Message about lottery winnings. Usually the scammer introduces himself as an employee of a radio station, a large company or an operator providing mobile services.
- An SMS or call from an unfamiliar number informing you that a relative or friend has changed their number and has suddenly run out of money on their phone. If you don't know whose number is calling you, then never transfer money and check who is calling.
- Relatives have problems who, for various reasons, cannot answer themselves, but they need help urgently.
- Allegedly there is a problem with the mobile operator in your region or city, which requires some confidential information.
- Attempts at blackmail. During the call, the person is told that there is some compromising information on him, for example, intimate photos, and they can be redeemed.
- In 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic, scammers have come up with new ways to deceive. For example, they may call and say that a person has violated self-isolation due to coronavirus and needs to pay a fine. Or they report on vaccinations and similar measures.
13.How to hide from those who want to find you online?
The answer is no. In the modern world, if you wish, you can find any person. Of course, we can assume that a person does not have a mobile phone, computer or Internet. He lives in a remote village or in the forest, in a dugout. He doesn't have a job, doesn't have a car, doesn't go to the store and doesn't need anything. Therefore, such a person will not be interesting to anyone; there is no point in searching for him.
In most cases, finding a person can be quite easy and simple. Considering that all correspondence is stored on the servers of Internet companies. All mobile phone account registrations remain in the Google and Apple databases. Bank transfers and payments are stored in bank archives. State registration of numerous citizen actions is stored and analyzed. This means that a police officer or other government representative can control any citizen and find out almost everything about him.
Privacy ended with the advent of computers, phones, the Internet and social networks. Now it will be more and more difficult to hide anything.
