How To Find Anyone with Just a Phone Number

Free and paid online tools allow to find massive amount of data on anyone with just a name and a phone number. Check out the list including my take on paid background check websites (it’s really bad out there)

Gathering basic information about a person is one of the first steps of any investigation. Sometimes, having a first name and a phone number is enough to build a case using open-source tools available online. Some of them provide basic information for free and suggest paying a small fee to uncover a full report. Unfortunately, not all services are up to date and can give many details on previous phone owners only. Examples of free and paid OSINT phone lookup services are provided below:

• Search Engines: start by searching for a phone number in quotation marks and using different formats of the number. Adding more personal information or even a potential location can bring more specific results
• Social Media Search: social media apps show accounts of people in a phone contact list. Adding a phone number to phone contacts and allowing the apps to have access to your contacts can be a solution for some investigations.