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Home - Tips - How to Know if a Phone Number is Fake: Tips and Techniques for Verification
Reviewed by : Prasanta Raut
These days, individuals and businesses heavily rely on texting and calling mediums to communicate with each other. An actual phone number looks and feels valid; most importantly, it belongs to a person or an organization.
Sometimes, in between, an intruder comes as an unwelcome guest to see private details from the cache. These scammers or spammers tend to make fake calls to harm others. They are rising in numbers recently due to how easily a fake number can be generated.
Now, imagine yourself being their next target. What will you do? With that, don’t fret at all. In this article, I’ll be providing you tips and tricks related to how to know if a phone number is fake. So, without any further ado, let’s get started.
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Mostly, people use fake phone numbers because they want to hide their identity or because they don’t want to be contacted at all. Otherwise, they will contact the other person with their actual phone number.
9 out of 10 times, if anyone uses a fake phone number, the intention behind calling is incorrect. Scammers or spammers make use of spoofing technology so that they can turn their caller ID into a fake number.
A local fake number is used to lure the recipient into answering the phone. Some of them even use it for illegal purposes like conducting a crime or harassing or bullying someone.
With the invention of modern technologies, it has become easy for anyone to spoof their phone numbers through the help of online services. This way, scammers can conduct illegal activities freely because of their anonymity.
For any scammer or harasser to not put any harm to you, you must check every incoming call to see whether it is accurate or fake. People use fake numbers to impersonate a different person, business, or organization.
You must verify phone numbers so that you don’t fall into their honey trap, which they do for stealing sensitive information or money. Telemarketing and robocalls also use phone numbers; hence, you must identify the phone number before answering the call.
Fake numbers are used primarily for threatening, intimidating, or harassing the opposing party. That’s why recognizing them can prevent you from getting involved with their malicious activities.
Verifying phone numbers can also help scan fraudulent activities, contact the right person, and avoid phishing attacks.
Generally, an unusual number, tricky call ID information, and weird area or country codes signal a fake phone number. However, distinguishing a fake phone number isn’t easy and can be identified by following some methods.
It might sound intimidating, but it is one of the ways to figure out whether a phone number is actual or not. You can ring a call to that phone number, and if it gets connected to voicemail or an automated message triggers, it is potentially a sign of a fake phone number.
In some instances, looking for information related to the phone number in search engines like Google can be handy. Someone may have posted negative reviews or reports associated with that phone number.
There are many phone number-searching services like Whitepages, Zlookup, and ThatThem, by which you can get detailed information about a specific phone number. Information like the caller’s name, location, etc. It can be accessed with such phone lookup services or a phone validator.
Truecaller is another trendy smartphone application by which you can identify a phone number or figure out who is calling. It also includes caller identification, call recording, flash messaging, etc. With it, you can even block spam calls or texts. This app is available for both Android and iPhone users.
Lastly, an important tip: don’t provide your personal information to the person calling from an unfamiliar or unknown number.
Since there are many ways to create a fake number, it is tough to recognize them. But I will make the job easy for you.
Tracing a fake phone number is hard, but what obstacles will you face? Let’s uncover that:
Tracing a fake number is becoming seriously challenging because of modern technologies like virtual phone number services and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications. With the help of these services, temporary or unpredictable phone numbers can be created in minutes.
Hence, the natural person associated with that phone number can be hard to break down.
Virtual phone numbers allow users to get a new phone number and switch between multiple numbers. Scammers take advantage of this and constantly change their targets.
Since they switch phone numbers regularly to approach another person, finding any information about them can be a hectic task.
Any person who is using fake phone numbers tries to be anonymous all the time. So, they fill in all the wrong personal information when registering for virtual numbers. It can be a name, email address, or other details.
Consequently, it hampers the investigation process and makes it even more challenging to crack regarding who is behind it.
The calling person can make the job even more difficult for the concerned authorities by using proxy servers or by disarranging their caller ID, leaving no signs of footprints behind.
To sophisticate the finding efforts, scammers can use VPNs or temporary phone numbers to hide the IP address and the location.
If the caller lives in a different country, then in such cases, tracing fake numbers can be complicated. It is because of different legal frameworks, privacy laws, and jurisdiction quarrels between the two countries. This can lengthen the investigation process further.
User privacy is the priority for virtual service providers; therefore, they don’t provide detailed information regarding a specific person. A formal legal paper is needed for that, which is time-consuming.
Yes, you obviously can track a phone number for free. There are several phone number validation tools like phone validator.com, Zlookup, TextMagic, etc., by which you can check the names associated with a phone number.
The free phone verification tool is limited in features and is not that much dependable. Also, the information it provides can be outdated or inaccurate.
Instead of relying on a verification tool, you can download the Truecaller app on Android and iPhones. It is one of the reputed apps for reverse number lookup and identifying robocalls, scammers, and intruders.
As you know, tracking a fake number now requires much hard work and is filled with challenges of various sorts. Despite that, you can try out a few methods which I’ll be suggesting to you here:
And that’s a wrap! In this article, I’ve tried to inform you how to know if a phone number is fake. I hope this helps you.
In this era of technology, communication processes have revolutionized a lot. At the same time, it gave birth to spammers and scammers who make fake calls to steal personal information and earn some cash.
They use specific softwares to call or send messages from nearly real-looking numbers. You can try the tips mentioned above and tricks to find the differences or to check the real nature of the call.
You can check whether a phone number is actual or not by applying methods like:
If a phone number is real, it will have the following attributes:
If the mobile number is valid, it will appear in the reverse phone lookup services and have a valid name and an actual address. The respective mobile number will also include a correct format and syntax.
Verifying a phone number includes the following processes:
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