Finding out who owns a mobile number

[solarman216]

Originally Posted by Thomas61

Evening,
Now we are entering a whole new level here and depends on actually how keen you are for info, but are there not apps/services that will allow you to track a phone by using it's phone number?

Only with the phone holders permission, Rick

[macabethiel]

Originally Posted by Thomas61

Evening,
Now we are entering a whole new level here and depends on actually how keen you are for info, but are there not apps/services that will allow you to track a phone by using it's phone number?

There is a US firm who will give you the location of a mobile phone to within 12 feet or so based on triangulation. I guess you have to be sure the phone is at it's owners home.

I think tracking apps have to be installed on the phone in question first. e.g. by a suspicious partner!

[Lazy-Ferret]

Originally Posted by macabethiel

There is a US firm who will give you the location of a mobile phone to within 12 feet or so based on triangulation. I guess you have to be sure the phone is at it's owners home.

I think tracking apps have to be installed on the phone in question first. e.g. by a suspicious partner!

We were out with KSAR searching for a distressed guy a few moths back, who was basically threatening to committing suicide and was videoing himself injecting something into his arm, and then posting it on Youtube.

Even with that, the police still could not track his phone until they had got him to click a link in a message they sent to him. They did the Triangulation from the cell towers, but it is very hit and miss in this country, and so far, on all the searches we have done, not once has it actually given us any help in locating the person.

[solarman216]

It must surely depend on the phone and how it is configured for instance if I have "maps" enabled then I surely can be pinpointed to within a few Mtrs, Rick

[Lazy-Ferret]

Originally Posted by solarman216

It must surely depend on the phone and how it is configured for instance if I have "maps" enabled then I surely can be pinpointed to within a few Mtrs, Rick

You can, but only if your phone is transmitting that data. It's getting the permission to make the phone transmit it, that's the hard thing.

We use a Map program called View Range, and it has a "Buddy" system, so people you add as buddies, can then see where you are on the map. We use it for safety, but it's easy to turn off if you do not want to be found.