How to get intelligence through phone numbers?

Phone numbers play a vital role in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) investigations. When conducting an OSINT investigation, phone numbers can serve as a starting point for uncovering a variety of details.

By utilizing online directories, public records, and social media platforms, investigators can often link phone numbers to specific individuals, businesses, or locations. Also, it can be used to track and monitor the activities of the person of interest, such as identifying patterns in call logs or analyzing text messages.

In this article, we will introduce four websites for obtaining more open information from phone numbers.

1. truecaller

https://www.truecaller.com/

The site searches for numbers in any country/region and displays information about the owner of the number, including name and location.

More than 368 million users currently use this site to identify unknown callers and messages.

2. CallerID Test

https://calleridtest.com/

CallerIDTest can look up phone numbers within the United States with 5 free lookups per day. The site also offers a bulk lookup feature with the ability to look up 500 phone numbers at a time.

3. Whitepages

https://www.whitepages.com/

Users can search for information by entering a phone number, address or name.

4. Whocalld

https://whocalld.com/

The site recognizes the phone number's country, carrier, calling area, and more.