reverse directory enquiries

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if you go to bts website you can do online directory enquiries (ie put in someones name and it tells you their address and phone number). fine. but can you do it in reverse? i've had some calls on my mobile (its on silent at work so i see at end of day) from numbers i really don't recognise, and i'm curious...

yes, i KNOW i could just ring the numbers and say "who are you?" but i'd like some idea first (they are not leaving messages obviously).

so, can you do this in reverse?

(what strikes me as odd is that this is actually far LESS stalkerish than the proper directroy enquiries where you just type in someones name and find out EVERYTHING!) - so, yould think doing it the other way around wouldn't be problematic, would it?

and why is someone in leytonstone calling me anyway?

― gareth, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This always happens me, I'm beginning to suspect it's only when my phone is on silent. And I too, don't ring and demand to know who it is. It's really odd. I never get called again by the people either. Maybe wrong numbers are just more frequent on mobiles.

― Ronan, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nope - not officially anyway.

You can buy a CD which has every phonebook and electoral roll entry in the UK and from there cross reference and reverse enquire it. See here for details.

― Nathan Barley, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whenever I get an unfamiliar number calling my mobile I get excessively excited & think I must've forgotten giving my number to some gorgeous bloke when drunk. Then it turns out to be a wrong number bah e.g. bloke who rang me on the bus TWICE last week looking for his friend Martin and clearly suspecting that I had stolen Martin's phone or had just murdered him or something.

― Emma, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

unknown caller: "hello is that paul?"
mark s: "actually no"
unknown caller: "oh. is it paula then?" ??!!¡¡¿¿

― mark s, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My Dad goes through the phone bill with a fine tooth comb (anyone familiar with Jim Royle opening scene in the very first episode of The Royle Family will recognise this behaviour) and if a number appears on the bill that he doesn't recognise, he'll ring it.

As a result, various numbers regularly appear on every bill as he rings every three months to ask who they are so as to identify the person who made the call. Naturally, the next bill comes, and his previous enquiry shows up, so he calls again. And so on...

― Nathan Barley, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My friend Paul got a text message from an unknown number asking him the answer to a pub quiz question. He assumed it was one of his mates who had just had his phone stolen and sent the answer back. He kept getting them, which we thought was slightly unfair in terms of the quiz, but between the two of us we got them all right. At last orders he got another message saying: "Cheers Ryan, we won, you're a mate, buy you a pint." Paul and Mystery Ryan, it transpires, have only one digit different in their nu

― Anna, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Illegal in UK. We have the expensive, 'professional' version of the CD metioned above at work. If you only have a number there's no way to get at anything, as far as I can make out. I think possibly with previous editions of it you could via the kind of sneaky tactics suggested, but maybe they've been forced to tighten it up.

― N., Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i put the numbers in google. most of them came up blank, but one was hmv trocadero, so i know who that is now at least...

― gareth, Friday, 10 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ok, i don't know who that other one is.

020 8558 94** anyone?

― gareth, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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