How can you find out by phone number which social networks a person is registered on?

We continue the topic of establishing an address if you have a mobile phone number. We have already written about easy ways to find the owner of a phone by his number. You can read it here: How to determine geolocation by phone number?

Now about methods of medium complexity. If simple methods do not work, you have failed, then you can resort to them.

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.

Smartphone applications

You can try searching for people by number using smartphone applications. Of course, little information will be received.

However, sometimes the user can find out the subscriber’s last and first name, and even see his photo.

Viber and other messengers

A fairly simple way to obtain information about a person using a mobile number is Viber.

To search for a subscriber, just add him to your contacts and open the messenger.

If Viber is registered to this number, you can see his name (or at least nickname) and profile photo.

The same method is suitable for other instant messengers, including WhatsApp and Telegram.

You can use the technique for desktop analogues of the same applications - and even Skype, both the mobile version and the computer one.

Truecaller

A smartphone app called Truecaller also allows you to get information about people just by knowing their number.

The program has such an opportunity thanks to the authorization features.

Before starting work, the user must log in using Google+ or Facebook services, where both email addresses and phone numbers can be used for identification.

Rice. 8. Truecaller application provides a high probability of finding a caller.

The probability of finding people by numbers is quite high. However, to ensure detection, these callers must also use Truecaller.

Users of other programs are found much less often, despite the assurances of the service developers about 100% results.

Spy apps

On the Internet you can find information about “spy” applications that can easily find a person just by his number.

Various options for such programs are offered:

free and not as functional like Observer, Children Tracker or Cell Tracker;
paid ones, including SpyBubble, FlexiSpy and SpouseSpy.

The theoretical advantages of such applications include a higher search probability.

In addition, the programs are practically impossible to detect - unlike other software, the activity of spyware utilities is not reflected in the processes, and there are no icons in the menu.

According to their sellers and developers, the applications collect information about calls and SMS, monitor correspondence and secretly connect to cameras.

Rice. 9. One of the “spy applications” for searching a phone by its number.

As practice shows, when purchasing spyware, users do not receive the functionality indicated in the program description.

And the positive reviews that customers leave are most likely fake.

In addition, the use of such programs is a violation of the law - although it is quite difficult to detect that a person is using them.

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.

Searching for people on Twitter

This social network will also ensure a successful search if the stranger is registered and his number is associated with the account:

Add a contact to your mobile list.
Download, install and log into the Twitter website. You can search for information without registration.
Go to the "Messages" field.
Click Find Friends.
Find the "Sync Contacts" field.
Select the person you want if they are registered and have allowed the search.

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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.

Is it possible to find a user on Instagram by mobile number?

The easiest way to find the desired object on Instagram by phone number is to synchronize your mobile contact directory with the social network. To do this, first enter the number of the person you are looking for if you do not have one.

Then proceed as follows:

Log into your account in the Instagram application via PC and click on “Settings” (located in the upper right corner).
In the top menu, find an icon in the form of a person’s head with a plus sign - this is the “Interesting People” section. Through it, you can find out the users you follow on Facebook and contacts from your mobile phone. The search will be conducted among contacts linked to an Instagram account.

Next, open “Contacts”. When you see the system’s offer to open access to the phone book in your gadget, you agree. Contacts will be synchronized as a new subscriber is added.

Now we go to the section with interesting people, then to “Contacts” and look for the right person by phone number.

Attention! Before performing such a manipulation, you must approve access to connect to Instagram for a mobile directory of phone numbers. This is done in the gadget settings, provided that the function has been disabled.

The principle of search on a smartphone is identical to that on a computer. What you need to do:

enter the contact of the desired subscriber into the telephone directory;
set up a connection to the Internet;
log into Instagram from your mobile phone;
open your profile by clicking on the button in the form of a man (located in the lower right corner);
go to the settings tab by clicking on the gear icon (in the upper right corner of the window);

go to “Contacts”;
give consent to access contacts from your smartphone for further synchronization.

After this, the program will send you an offer to subscribe to the detected new accounts based on matches with the numbers. If the avatar you are looking for is among those found, click on it with the mouse cursor and go to the person’s profile. By examining the information on the page, you will understand whether this person is the one you are looking for.

If the number you are looking for is not in the list

If the method did not produce results and it was not possible to identify the person, there may be several explanations:

the number is not used by the user on Instagram;
During the registration process, the person did not provide personal information.

In the first scenario, nothing can be done; in the second case, there is still hope for a positive outcome. To do this, proceed as follows:

rewrite information from “faceless” profiles;
log out of the social network page;
erase the “lost” contact from the gadget’s directory (don’t forget to copy it onto paper first);
Log in to Instagram again;
open the “Profile” - “Contacts” tabs.

After scanning the data with the application, view the updated list of contacts. If someone disappears from it, then he is the one you are looking for.

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.

Accounts linked to a phone number

Having a phone number, you can view all profiles and accounts that are linked to this phone number. When we register a VKontakte page or register on dating sites or somewhere else, the service constantly asks us to enter a phone number for authorization.

So, there is an opportunity to reverse this story: that is, having a phone number, well-savvy specialists will tell you about all the profiles on most popular sites where this person can be registered.

Then everything depends on how he registered. Maybe he called himself by his own name, or maybe he just put a cat on his avatar. But at the same time, we understand that if a profile is linked to a given person’s phone number, then most likely it is directly related to that person.

It also happens when a 45-year-old adult man registers as “Katya Ledenets, 14 years old.” Such moments also happen.

When you have received information about the real social networks that the desired person uses, you can combine them, you can use combinations of penetration and some other operational-search activities.

For example, you have established that this person is registered on the Mamba dating site. Next, you can create some kind of interesting profile and write to him, if this is a man, then you can create the image of some flirting lady who does not follow strict rules and agrees to go to his house. Now it’s all quite simple, morals are quite free. And a man, if he feels that a girl is inclined to meet her, can invite her directly home. This way you can find out the address. In this case, we combined punching with an element of social engineering.

Another combination of penetration can be combined with external surveillance. That is, we identified the person, invited him to some kind of fictitious meeting, of course, a tall blonde with large breasts did not come, but a little man came who simply brought him from this restaurant to the point of his arrival. Thus, we combined penetration with external surveillance.

If you don’t know anything at all about a person, but only have a phone number, then you can find out his first name, patronymic and the first letter of his last name. Go to Sberbank Online and make a transfer for a certain amount using this phone number. Even before the transfer is confirmed, the site will give you your first name, middle name and first letter of your last name. This will work if a person has a Sberbank card and a phone number is linked to it.

You can also add the number to the contact list of popular instant messengers (Viber or WhatsApp), often people upload their photos there and subscribe.

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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