Social networks are one of the most active online forms of content promotion. Channel promotion means high achievements by many potential clients for business and fans for unique content. Can we afford to miss a huge opportunity to expand our audience? Of course not!
There are many friends and acquaintances on your phone in your contact book who will be interested in the content. A person doesn’t know how to find them on the portal using phone data? We will share tips on how to find an Instagram account by phone number and expand your audience of subscribers.
Instagram has all the ways to find acquaintances and friends with whom you have some type of relationship. However, identifying everyone on the portal is not easy. The search bar is not the most convenient way to access everything. There are many different methods, so take a few minutes of your precious time to chat on Instagram. The easiest and fastest way is to enter their name into a social network search engine and then follow them, view their photos, videos or stories. If the username is unknown or forgotten, find him/her using contacts.
Search engines
The easiest way is to enter the phone number into a search engine. If a person entered it on any websites, this information may remain on the Internet. It is better to use several search engines (Yandex and Google) - this way there is a higher chance that one of them will provide some kind of clue.
A search for the number through the Google, Opera and Microsoft Edge browsers produced only one result - the name of our site.
Internet services
Owners of smartphones running Android OS can take advantage of built-in tools from Google. Their disadvantage is the need to enter a password and login for your account.
Searches by phone number are not possible, although the technique still allows you to monitor the phone and is worthy of attention.
The most popular methods include:
- Checking your movement history using the Location History service. here that shows the user's position over the past few hours. The information is quite accurate and is collected using Wi-Fi and GPS modules.
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- Using the Android Remote Control application . It allows you to find out only the user’s position at the time of verification. There is no history here. Moreover, the program can bypass protection in the form of two-factor verification.
There are similar programs for smartphones on other operating systems - for example, Windows Mobile or iOS. Users of such mobile gadgets can use the services windowsphone.com or icloud.com, respectively. To do this, you will also have to enter the password and login of the owner’s profile.
Website phone-location.net and other fraudulent resources
There are resources that theoretically allow you to search for a subscriber only by phone number. However, they all require a subscription fee.
But real reviews show that their determination accuracy is relatively low - sometimes such a service only allows you to find out the city.
In the list of such services you can find phone-location.net, to work with which you should perform the following steps:
- Go to the resource and register or log in using a social network.
- Go to the phone location section in the navigation bar.
- Select the country in which the person is located.
- Enter the phone number whose owner you want to find.
- Get acquainted with the information that appears on the screen.
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The service could be called a good option for finding a person by phone - but, as user reviews show, it still does not show the real location.
And no one returns the money spent to users.
Rice. 13. Reviews about the site phone-location.net.
Other similar resources that can be found on the Internet are also fraudulent.
For example, anek-worlds.ru, mestopolozhenie-telefona.com.
It is not difficult to verify this - just try to go to these sites in a browser with an antivirus extension enabled, which will issue a warning about the danger of the resource.
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Search on social networks by phone number
If search engines do not produce any results, you will have to take a longer and more labor-intensive route: search for a person by number directly through social networks. A significant disadvantage of this method is the need to register on social networks.
The procedure for searching in social networks and instant messengers is almost the same. First, you can try to find a person by entering his number into the search bar of the service. The calculation here is that many people indicate a phone number in their profile. If there is no result, you can use a trick such as password recovery.
Let's look at an example of how to find out whether a person is registered on the VKontakte social network. First, we search by phone number through the search bar. As you can see, there is no result.
Mobile operator services
Most mobile operators offer search services to their subscribers.
Almost all of them are paid and can be connected to any tariff.
To determine the location, the user being searched must give his consent - although he has the right to refuse the request.
The list of services includes the following offers:
- "Locator" (MTS). For 100 rubles, a mobile operator client receives a month of using the search service (no more than 100 requests).
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- "Beeline. Coordinates" (Beeline). Search from another popular operator for 1.7 rubles. in a day. True, it can only determine the position of clients of the same company.
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- "Radar" (Megafon). The simplest option can be used for free; for the advanced version, which allows you to track up to 5 people, you will have to pay 3 rubles. per day.
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- "Geosearch" (Tele2). A service that requires a payment of 3 rubles. per day, works only with subscribers of the same operator. Another disadvantage is that the person must be in the home zone.
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These methods cannot truly be called searching for a person by phone, since, in addition to activating the service, the consent of the subscriber is required.
But they are suitable for obtaining information about their loved ones. For example, about a child who is controlled by parents, elderly parents, grandparents.
The accuracy of location determination depends on the number of mobile operator towers in the area and the distance to them.
The characteristics of the GSM module also affect it.
The location error is usually within 10-15 m, although it can reach 100 m, and outside the city - 200 meters or more.
Direct contact to the operator
To truly find a person, knowing only his phone number, only contacting the company that services this SIM card helps.
Although the only reason for this can be the theft of a phone.
Before contacting the operator, you should write a statement to the police, telling law enforcement officers not only the number, but also the IMEI of the phone.
However, using the code, users can find their lost or stolen phone themselves.
For this purpose, special programs such as Android Device Manager have been created on the Android OS.
On iPhones, you should use the Find My iPhone .
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In the future, mobile operators plan to integrate special chips into each SIM card, which will allow them to quickly and accurately determine the location of subscribers. This service is quite expensive, and is currently only valid in the United States.
Searching for a person by phone number through password recovery in VK
Then we try the password recovery method. The procedure is as follows:
1. You need to log out of your profile.
2. Try to log into your new profile using the “Forgot your password?” item. and phone number.
3. If the application prompts you to send an SMS with a code to log into your profile, it means the person has an account on VK.
In fact, the same method can be applied to other social networks: Facebook, Odnoklassniki and others.
Search through the VK application
The third way is to use the VK mobile application to search. The procedure is as follows:
1. Save the desired number in your smartphone contacts.
2. Then log into your profile and open the “Friends” tab.
3. Select the “Add friend” item and click on “Contacts” (here you need to give VK permission to read contacts).
4. We look for the desired number in the contact list. If a person has a profile on a social network, next to the number there will be an “Add” function. All that remains is to click on it and send a request to be added as a friend.
Searching for a person by phone number through special services
There is no single service for finding people by phone number. There are websites and mobile applications that help determine which region a number belongs to and whether it is included in the database of spammers or scammers. But they will not help you find out which social networks a person is registered on. Such services include sites “Who called?” and mobile applications Determinator from Yandex, Don't pick up the phone, GetContact, NumBuster and others. The last two services by phone number make it possible to find out how the owner of the desired number is recorded in other people’s contacts.
For example, when you enter a number into the search bar of the GetContact application, we will receive not only the first name, but also the last name of the owner of the number, as well as some additional information (husband, brother, matchmaker, etc.).
Of the other services that provide information by phone number, TrueCaller turned out to be the most effective. He quickly found not only the first and last name of the owner of the number, but also his photograph, email address and detailed information about the number: the name of the mobile operator and region. TrueCaller can be used on both a smartphone and a computer.
Important: when using special services, including Don’t Pick Up, TrueCaller, GetContact, NumBuster and others, you act at your own peril and risk. By allowing access to contacts on your smartphone, you “merge” all the numbers into some kind of database. How the owners of such services will use it in the future is unknown.
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Ways and reasons
Reasons for searching for a user by phone number may include:
- The need to find a person who, for some reason, cannot be reached by phone. For example, the owner of the number does not answer the phone when calling from unfamiliar phones.
- Finding your lost or stolen phone. Although usually thieves quickly change the SIM card, and it is no longer possible to detect a mobile device simply by the number.
- Checking the location of a loved one who does not need to be constantly called. For example, a child or an elderly relative about whom parents or children are worried, respectively.
You can also search by phone for a stranger with whom the user has some kind of financial dealings - for example, a suspicious seller in an online store.
Having a number allows you to search for friends who have recently changed their number without leaving other contacts.
Although this search does not allow you to determine the exact location, but only an approximate one, and the main goal is simply to contact the person in other ways without using the phone.
The simplest way would be a special database where you could enter a phone number and find out where its owner is, and even get other information.
However, in reality such services do not exist.
Their activities are illegal, and the offers on the Internet come from scammers.
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A mobile operator might be able to help locate the person, but phone companies usually only respond to requests from law enforcement.
If the reason for searching for a user by number was due to threats coming from him, in such a situation you should immediately contact the police.
