Your Phone Number Can be Hacked for Spam Calls

You may have one suspicion in mind or just a question- “Can my number be hacked by callers by way of fake or spam calls”? The answer is a big ‘Yes’. To some of us, answering the unknown phone calls may look comfortable. But you should try to avoid these calls through phone number trackers instead of speculating "who called me" so that at least you may know the basic information about the caller. Once you receive the call, the callers gets the access to some of your information. One tip to save yourself is to clean the cache memory completely and restart the phone. Such calls become problematic when you are driving or are in hurry to reach the workplace. We often get spam or fake calls at odd times by various telemarketers, cons and hackers and think that it may be some important call. You stop for a while and look at your mobile and it's irritating when you get to know that the callers can’t be identified; or, you can say, can’t be traced. We all are suffering from this anguish to get unsolicited calls.

Dangers of answering a call from an unknown number

You may also encounter the situation when you opt to call back the phantom numbers and it doesn’t get picked up or you may come to know that phone number is not in existence. But you should try to avoid such calls in some way or the other. Sometimes, if you answer such calls you have to risk some extra charges on your phone bills and may receive more mysterious calls which may create problems for you in the future.

Some people have also reported that there came a situation when they decided to pick up the unknown calls and answered a few questions related to their bank account (thinking that the person at the other end was from the bank). Spammers succeeded in achieving their aim and after a week or so, their bank accounts slashed by a huge amount from somewhere outside the boundary of the nation. In such a situation, the active vigilance of the banking system should play a role to track such fraudulent activities.

Most telecom companies have a separate department for handling calls from fake numbers. Generally, they provide such information to investigation agencies. You can also avail their services but for that, you will have to report the situation first to some investigation authorities. Then they may permit you to get the full information about the callers. Generally, these companies protect the privacy of the callers.

Understanding the level of stress as a result of unknown calls, you can make other people aware of this service and help them in avoiding any kind of harassment by just entering the 10-digit number and pressing enter. You will get the required information in no time. The problem, though, is that free reverse phone directories provide mainly fundamental information, as only landlines are considered to be a part of the unrestricted domain and can consequently be included in public databases. Alternatively, it can be said that "free" services will only give you the information that may not be sufficient for you. But do not get disappointed as there are options of having paid services too, which may give you all the required information.

Be sure to choose a legitimate phone lookup service

The competition in the area of reverse phone lookup is stiff and most of the services won’t seem worth spending your time and money. But what you can be sure of is that these services are legal and can be rated on some basic criteria like confidentiality, fast results, credibility/goodwill, large database and varieties of phone numbers.

Regarding confidentiality, you can say that no one would prefer to be acknowledged by others over the internet about what you are searching. That should be extremely private. However, the providers of free services can never be accused of exposing such information. Moreover, the information related to the numbers that they display are entered by common people harassed by their fraudulent calls. But the question is, how to identify a good service provider in this field?

We are going online day by day and when we intend to purchase something through online shopping websites, we look up at the reviews given by others. That is not the only way to know about the reputation of some product or service online. Therefore, it is apparent that these phone lookup services should have good reviews which may augment their reputation in a similar way.

Another question arises in your mind that, “What if you need to get the information about a particular number and suddenly come to know that such numbers are not available in the database”? It would be a great disappointment for you hence the mobile number tracking services need to have a large database. This factor is acutely significant for the best probable likelihood of accomplishment of your outcomes and lastly, these services should have landlines numbers, unlisted numbers and pager numbers also apart from mobile numbers. It will add more authenticity to these services.