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Monday, October 10, 2011 at 5:03PM

If you are in New England today we had some amazing weather so I hope you were able to get out there. Since many of you have taken a personal day away from your large, medium and small businesses I decided to get some extra personal information out to you. Actually, it's more like keeping your information personal that's the real point of today's post. We have another great one from Zahid who has been a great supporter and contributor to Financially Digital. Hopefully you've also taken some time to watch last weeks Uconomy episode in the post above this one!

Using Anywho.com to Find Out Who's Been Calling

You can never be too careful with your personal information. These days, people can use your information to commit identity fraud, and even use your financial information to make fraudulent purchases -- sticking you with the bill. You never know who's on the other end of the phone, especially if all that shows up on your phone's caller ID is a number. While you don't want to give out any personal information over the phone, you might still be curious about who's been pestering you with the calls. If it is important for you to guard your privacy, and find out who has information about you, you can use the web site Anywho.com to look up the registrant of a phone number.

Using Anywho.com

Anywho.com is an information company that combs public records and cell phone records to help you find out who has been calling you. All you need is the phone number, and you can get information on the name the number is registered to, as well as the address in some cases. This is valuable information, especially if you are concerned about your privacy, and want to know exactly who has your phone number -- and why they might be calling you.

The first step to take is to find out if the phone number is a publicly listed land line. This is fairly straightforward. Go to Anywho.com and select the "Reverse Lookup" tab on the web site. Then just put in the number. If the information is public, and it's a landline, the name and address of the caller will pop up. It's quick and easy. However, it is important to realize that cell phone numbers are not available on this site. It's really more about finding information about people and businesses, and learning who is calling you.

Additionally, it can be difficult to find information on toll-free numbers using Anywho.com. But you can be directed to Intelius to find out more about people and phone numbers, and even to perform background checks.

Looking Up Someone's Phone Number

Of course, you might also want to double check someone's phone number, or double check a business number. Anywho.com can help with that as well. Type in a name, and the phone number will pop up. If someone calls claiming to be a business, you can use the business lookup on the web site to find the phone number -- and see if they match. You can also double check if you think that a caller may be spoofing the caller ID. (Spoofing is a technique in which the caller uses fake information to seem like a legitimate company.) Use Anywho.com to check what appears on the caller ID against the actual company.

In any case, it's usually a bad idea to give a great deal of personal information out over the phone, no matter how much you think you might trust the caller. Instead, be cautious. And if you have a question about who has called you, use a reverse phone look up service to run the number and see if you can discover who has your contact information.

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