Telephone No but not name!!

[geordiegirl1]

Is there any way I can find out the name/address of a domestic telephone without having to actually ring it.

Thanks

[cazzz1975]

I doubt you would get an address unless you phoned the number and asked

[bednobs]

no

[Maydup]

If its a land line, you could try the reverse phone look up sites for an idea of the location, but your unlikley to get he name and address.

[Teddy_boy]

Only if youre a spook.

[AlBags]

Put the code and number in on Google.
You might be lucky.

[nungate]

It used to be possible, back in the old days before I retired as a telephonist, to find the name and address of a phone number, there was a book we could refer to but whether it is still available now I really have no idea. Have you tried the BT phonebook site it might be possible to find it that way.

[Buenchico]

When telephone directories first became available on CD-ROMs (before everyone turned to the internet) it was possible to purchase a version which included a 'reverse look-up' facility. However there were howls of protest from privacy campaigners. (An example they used was that a young woman might be prepared to give her phone number to an apparently nice guy whom she'd met in a nightclub, but not want him to know her address until she'd got to know him a lot better).

Consequently the law was changed and it's now a serious criminal offence in the UK to provide 'reverse lookup' directory facilities, either on CD-ROM or online. Only the police and security services have access to such information, (with several police officers being sacked and/or prosecuted for accessing such data without good cause).

So, unless the number happens to show up in a Google search (because, for example, the phone subscriber is the secretary of an organisation who has placed his/her contact details online) there is no lawful way of obtaining the information you require.

Chris

[geordiegirl1]

I think I'll just give up, but thank you to everyone for your replies.

[factor-fiction]

You could ask someone else to ring the number for you! Is there a reason why you don't want to ring it? Is it the cost?

[ubasses]

http://whocallsme.com/

This was mentioned in an earlier thread