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Everyone finds a mysterious phone number on their caller ID, cell phone or phone bill at one time or another.  Normally these are wrong numbers, but if you keep seeing the same number come up over and over, perhaps it is time to find out who is calling.

In the old days of land line phones, it was pretty easy to go the phone company website and do a reverse search for that number.  As long as the number was published, you could normally find out who the owner of the number was.  

Today, most people use cell phones – and that has made the process of doing cell phone number lookups harder.  Cell phone numbers are now portable – people can keep their number when changing cell phone providers.  So now we have a large group of numbers that are not listed in the traditional phone directories.

So how do you do a cell phone number lookup?  It is easy now with some of the advanced web sites that are on the Internet today.  You will notice that many of the sites advertise that you can look up your number by doing a lookup for free.  These free offers are there to attract you, but to get the number you want, you are going to have to pay a nominal fee.

The companies that run these cell phone number lookups have to maintain a large and growing database of numbers.  This database is constantly changing, and that takes time, and money.  So don’t assume you will be able to get your number for free – it is going to cost you a small fee.

There are many web sites that offer this service – make sure the site you use is tested and recommended.  Avoid scam sites that promise too much for too little – you will get what you pay for.  Stick to the reputable sites and you’ll be successful.

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Lately I’ve been getting annoying phone calls from telemarketers trying to sell me things. Last I’ve heard, it’s illegal for them to call mobile phones trying to sell their crap. I tried to ask for the manager or the name of their company, (telemarketers) but they just quickly hang up when I ask for a supervisor. They would not even let me ask them to take my number out of their calling list.

I do have caller-id, so their number shows up on my screen, however, when I try to call that number, it goes straight to voice mail and the VM gives no info that is useful to the authorities.

Question. How can I program my phone to not allow a call through if the caller is coming from the number I’ve blocked. Is there a way, a easy way?
I’ve found the answer: Took a little searching but here it is. This should stop them bastards. =D

https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

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As more and more consumers learn about Voice over Internet Protocol phone services, they are trying to find a definitive answer to one burning question: Is this thing reliable enough to replace the Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) they grew up with and have built their lives around?

There are, in fact, a great many positive reasons to switch from POTS to VoIP:

1. It’s cheaper. Way cheaper. From about $9.95 for the most basic service (still far better than POTS) to $39.95 for residential; business plans usually run from $49.95-to-$99.95 and include a separate fax number.

2. The free VoIP “modem” is shipped to you in 5 to 10 days; buy it at a store for same-day service and the VoIP firm will reimburse or credit it against your bill.

3. “Extra” services widely standard: VoiceMail, Caller ID, Call Waiting, 3-Way Conferencing, Call Forward, Repeat Dialing, Call Block, unlimited calling (local and LD) – in short, virtually every option ever offered – for an additional fee – by any POTS company.

4. No charge for incoming calls from anywhere, unlike US cellular providers; same for outgoing “local” calls (depending on plan; some use a cellular-style monthly minutes package).

5. With VoIP, “local” in North America almost always includes both the US and Canada; some also include Western Europe, parts of Asia and parts of Latin America. For those countries not included free, international plans are available for far less than standard LD companies. Or you can make occasional calls without a plan for far lower per-minute charges than most LD plans. This generally applies – more or less in reverse – for VoIP services in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, as well.

6. No computer needed, just plug a standard phone cable from the VoIP box to your regular desktop phone or portable base station.

7. Activate every phone jack in the house – just plug the VoIP modem into any existing wall jack, after first disconnecting your house’s internal phone wiring from the POTS world at the phone box outside, probably on your front wall. This option generally is not available to apartment dwellers. Sorry.

8. Virtual Phone Numbers: For a low price (usually about $5), you can have a phone number in almost any area code, so friends or family can dial a local number that rings on your phone. You can’t use it for outgoing calls because it isn’t a “real” line.

9. Low-cost 800 Numbers: Want to make it free for a lot of callers without bankrupting you? Most VoIP providers offer cheap 800 numbers – free to the caller, fixed monthly rate for you (varies, but roughly $5 for the first 100 minutes each month, then 4.5-cents or so per minute beyond that).

10. Find Me: Some include a system that, if you don’t answer, will call three or more other numbers you designate, in sequence or simultaneously, then go to voicemail if you still don’t answer.

11. And this is THE KICKER: Take your home or office “phone” with you when you travel. Just pack the VoIP modem in your suitcase; on arrival, plug it into any high-speed Internet connection (hotel room, friend or relative’s house, airport, whatever) and, bingo, you can place and, more importantly, receive calls made to your regular phone number. And that is true anywhere in the world (with charges based on your home location). Go to Bora Bora and someone calling your home or office number in Des Moines will never know you’re not in Iowa when you answer; call someone and your usual Caller ID shows.

For every ying, of course, there must be a yang – so now for the downside:

1. If you have a cable Internet connection, your downline is 2 to 10 times faster than your upline. As a result, you may hear the other person clear as a bell and they may not hear you at all. This will lead to them hanging up on you (they don’t know you’re there) or demanding you “get off the speaker” or “hang up your cell and call me from a real phone”. And those are the polite ones.

The VoIP companies insist 256K up should be more than enough for a clear signal; that does not appear to be the case in actual use. There are ways to overcome this, if you get a knowledgeable VoIP support tech.

2. High-speed connections vary in quality based on a host of factors, from how many other users are sharing that cable line to how far it is from the nearest DSL booster node. Which means day-to-day, even call-to-call, VoIP quality is going to vary, as well – sometimes to wild extremes.

3. When no one is speaking, there is a “dead” silence that makes most people, accustomed to the slight “buzz” of a POTS signal, think the connection has been broken. If you don’t want to hear a constant “are you still there?”, explain this to everyone at the start of any conversation.

4. If you try to “activate” a new credit card by calling via VoIP, the computer at the other end may insist you are not calling from your home phone. “Why?” is an as-yet unanswered question from the VoIP providers.

5. Never, ever, let anyone put you on silent hold. If your VoIP service doesn’t hear something on that line for several minutes (how many seems to vary), it may simply disconnect you, apparently on the theory your phone is actually off the hook.

6. If your up-line signal is not strong enough, your call won’t go through, leading to an annoyingly frequent “Your call cannot be completed at this time” recording.

7. Occasionally, your VoIP will just stop working. The fix varies slightly by provider, but basically involves a lot of unplugging and replugging of VoIP modem, router, cable/DSL connection, in a specific sequence provided by the VoIP company.

8. Last – and by far worst: If your Internet connection goes down for any reason, you have no phone service. Anyone depending entirely on VoIP is strongly encouraged to keep a cellphone handy (keeping in mind you can set VoIP up to automatically call your cell if you don’t answer the VoIP line).

Bottom line: Commercial VoIP is a real telephone service, unlike computer-based “messengers” or even Skype (which clearly states it is not telephony); marks against, include no video (yet) and a lot of bugs yet to resolve. Still, at a savings of $30 to $100 a month, these problems aren’t so severe you can’t learn to live with them. It’s a bigger issue for your office, but add a cellphone to the mix for back-up and you may soon join the growing number of consumers who have gone all-VoIP, with no intention of ever going to POTS again.

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Would you go to a dentist if the only tools she used are a chainsaw and a stick? Would you take your car to be serviced by a mechanic whose only tools were a chocolate bar and hairspray? Would you want to your child to go to an elementary school that only taught from a set of 1964 encyclopedias?

Do you see the connection?

It is simple- really. Every industry has tools that can be specific to that industry. The dentist would never use a chainsaw (even though it may feel like it). They use tools that are designed and that are necessary for the successful completion of their task- to assist with proper dental hygiene. The same holds true for ever other profession and industry. At the same time, to take tools that may not be useful to an industry can slow down the process.

So here comes the question. Why is it that those that skip trace do not utilize the tools that are available to our profession or we try to use the tools of other professions to do our job?

What are the tools available to the skip trace industry? You’ve heard me talk about some of them. Databases, each other and our minds. But, what are some other tools available to us? Below is a list. I’m not calling it a complete list, because we think out side of the box and have incredible imaginations, so the list will never be completed. Not all of these will apply to your needs, but maybe it will spark some ideas and you can add to the list.

CALLER IDHave caller ID setup on ALL incoming calls. When you ask for a debtor for their number, is it matching up with the number they are calling from? If possible, through you phone provider have a report available to you per day of all received calls (just incase you miss it and they don’t leave a message). Any numbers that you do not recognize reverse that number and see what you get.

SUBSCRIPTION DATABASESMost of us already use these. They can be very useful for obtaining additional information on your debtor or those around them. Some include: www.accurint.com, www.merlin.com and www.skipsmasher.com to name a few. There are several more available, do some research and see which best suites your needs.

FREE PUBLIC INFORMATION WEBSITES These websites have gathered tons of links to public record sites. Most of them
separate the information by state. Some examples include: www.skipease.com,
www.crimetime.com and www.publicrecordfinder.com.

FILTER DATABASES On these websites you enter various information of the debtor, public records and other websites are searched and the results are provided in a quick easy to understand format. Some examples include: www.argali.com, www.pretrieve.com and www.zabasearch.com. These really speed up the investigation process.

COMPARE DATABASESThis is where I daydream about a database that you can enter the information for two different people at the same time. Then with the same process of the other databases information is researched on both subjects then is compared for anything that is the same and that information is returned to the user. This way you can determine if there is a spouse or roommate or significant other. The reason that I daydream is because to my knowledge no such database exist at this time. However, if it does PLEASE let me know.

WORKSHEETSWhatever you call it. A worksheet, a checklist or a form. This is what the investigator uses to make sure that every stone has been turned, every nook and cranny (what’s a cranny?) has been checked for information to help locate the debtor.

LETTERSThis provides another option to reach out a touch the debtor. By sending a letter with PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED printed on the envelope is an easy way to get determine if the debtor has moved and left a forwarding address. The downside to sending a letter is the turn around time.

INTERVIEW TECHNIQUESThere are two different approaches direct and indirect. Direct is determining the information that you need contact the people that have that information and ask them for it. Indirect is also called pretext or social engineering. Determine what information that you need then develop a story, contact the people that have that information and present your story so that they will give you the information that you need. Sometimes pretexting is illegal; please make sure you know both the federal and your state laws that apply.

TRAPLINESThis is a service provide by various telephone companies. When someone calls a trap line the number is captured. It does not matter if it is non published or published you will get a report of all numbers. You can setup a standard toll free number to do this but it takes up to 30 days to get results.

HELLO LINESThis is a phone line that is simple answered as “hello”. It is not answered with the company name or with the professionalism of the company. It is answered in the same way that you would you home phone.

CALLER ID SPOOFINGThere are companies that can be used or phone systems that can be purchased allowing the user to change their outgoing Caller ID information.

INVESTIGATOR SURROUNDINGSCollections and skip tracing need to be physically separated. It helps with the mindset of the skip tracer as well as not allowing the other party to hear a demand for payment in the background.

NETWORK OF INVESTIGATORSA spider web works because there are many strands connected. If your debtor is running from you they are probably running from someone else. We need to work together.

MINDSETHere is where the rubber meets the road. Skip tracing is a game of hide and seek. The debtor is hiding you are seeking, it’s that simple.

INVESTIGATOR EDUCATIONA skip tracer MUST stay up to date with laws, procedures and resources to be the best that they can. About a once a year seminar that includes laws, processes, skill sets and resources with the ability to network should do the trick.

We have the skills. We have the resources. We have the tools. Lets show the rest of the world how the professionals do it!

Oh, if you come up with some more to add to the list-please send a copy my way.

As always, happy hunting.

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I know I can hide my number to appear as ‘Restricted number” but what I want is to call from my cell phone and the other person who I will call can see an area code different than mine.

I don’t have any available phone with another area in my house.

Is there any “trick” to do so?
Help me out please.
Mountain: Did u use a phone card like those to make International calls??

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