For registration, any messenger requires you to provide your phone number, and social networks on top also require your email. Such openness is often negative, since scammers readily take advantage of the availability of contacts.
But, like any phenomenon in our lives, there is a positive side. By phone number you can find out more information about a prospective business partner or find an old acquaintance on social networks. As an option, see how real the photos are posted by the person you agreed to meet on a dating site.
Well, let's find out how to find social media. person's network by phone number.
What and how can you find out about a person by his mobile phone number?
You can really learn a lot about a person from their mobile phone number. For example, through messengers you can find out your last name, first name and patronymic. Photos can also be posted there. Next, it will not be difficult for an interested person to use image search and contact you on social networks, where there will be even more personal information.
In addition, there are a large number of services that help you find information about a person by providing only his mobile phone number. Through the same search engines Yandex and Google, you can find out the minimum required in order to later get to accounts on social networks and other things.
Mobile operator services
Most mobile operators offer search services to their subscribers.
Almost all of them are paid and can be connected to any tariff.
To determine the location, the user being searched must give his consent - although he has the right to refuse the request.
The list of services includes the following offers:
- "Locator" (MTS). For 100 rubles, a mobile operator client receives a month of using the search service (no more than 100 requests).
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- "Beeline. Coordinates" (Beeline). Search from another popular operator for 1.7 rubles. in a day. True, it can only determine the position of clients of the same company.
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- "Radar" (Megafon). The simplest option can be used for free; for the advanced version, which allows you to track up to 5 people, you will have to pay 3 rubles. per day.
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- "Geosearch" (Tele2). A service that requires a payment of 3 rubles. per day, works only with subscribers of the same operator. Another disadvantage is that the person must be in the home zone.
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These methods cannot truly be called searching for a person by phone, since, in addition to activating the service, the consent of the subscriber is required.
But they are suitable for obtaining information about their loved ones. For example, about a child who is controlled by parents, elderly parents, grandparents.
The accuracy of location determination depends on the number of mobile operator towers in the area and the distance to them.
The characteristics of the GSM module also affect it.
The location error is usually within 10-15 m, although it can reach 100 m, and outside the city - 200 meters or more.
Direct contact to the operator
To truly find a person, knowing only his phone number, only contacting the company that services this SIM card helps.
Although the only reason for this can be the theft of a phone.
Before contacting the operator, you should write a statement to the police, telling law enforcement officers not only the number, but also the IMEI of the phone.
However, using the code, users can find their lost or stolen phone themselves.
For this purpose, special programs such as Android Device Manager have been created on the Android OS.
On iPhones, you should use the Find My iPhone .
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In the future, mobile operators plan to integrate special chips into each SIM card, which will allow them to quickly and accurately determine the location of subscribers. This service is quite expensive, and is currently only valid in the United States.
Search by mobile phone number using Yandex and Google
The first place you can check your mobile phone number is the search engines Yandex and Google. If a person knows how to use a tool such as a search engine, he will be able to find quite a lot of information: from the user’s accounts on social networks to his specialty or place of work.
To get information about a person by his mobile phone number, just make a search query using the phone number in double quotes. In this case, search engine algorithms will look for the phone number exactly as you entered it, so when searching you need to use all possible options: with or without a country code, with or without hyphens, etc.
Quite often, in this way you can find advertisements of the owner of a mobile phone number that he has ever published on the World Wide Web. You can also find his account on LinkedIn or his work resume on various sites such as HeadHunter.ru.
Alternative Search Options
There are also alternative search options. And they consist of using additional programs.
Browser search engine
You can also find treasured pages through a regular search engine. It's much faster and easier, but... not that likely. Nevertheless, it's still worth a try. Therefore, before engaging in fake password recovery, first enter the phone number and name of the social network into the search bar.
For example, “+7 xxx xxx xx xx VKontakte” or “+7 xxx xxx xx xx Onoklassniki”.
To search, you should use all possible systems, from Yandex to Opera. Maybe somewhere there will be strings that can be pulled.
Third party services
For our purpose, special applications and programs were created. True, using them is not always free. But it’s quite possible to find free services.
“Identifier from Yandex”, “Don’t pick up the phone”, “GetContact”, “NumBuster” - there really are quite a few of them. But there is no single search engine that helps find a person on social networks by phone number. So this option also cannot be considered one hundred percent.
How to find a person by mobile phone number using Instagram
How to find a person by IP address?
Everything here works exactly the same as with instant messengers. You need to add the number to your phone book, and then go to Instagram and check if a new user has appeared there from your contacts list. Here are the detailed instructions:
- Add your mobile phone number to your contacts.
- Go to Instagram.
- Go to Settings and then to the Account section.
- Click on the Contacts Sync button and make sure your contacts are fully synced.
After this, you just have to go to the “Interesting People” tab, where you will need to select “Contacts”. If the user does not appear there, it means that contact synchronization is disabled and you need to look for another method.
Determine phone number using apps for Android and iPhone
At the moment, the best and most convenient application for searching data about the owner of a number on cell phones and tablets is GetContact. Includes messenger, caller ID and spam blocking. Works on iOS, Android. It shows how the owner of the phone number is recorded in other people's contacts. Here are the links to the application ⇒
- Download from Huawei AppGallery
- numbuster.com/ru/
There are many negative reviews about this application regarding the imposition of paid subscriptions and services. Be careful. It looks like the application itself should be blacklisted if such problems actually exist
