Junk Phone Calls (Phone spammers)

At the moment, I see the following sites, to name a few:
whocallsme.com
phoneowner.info
800notes.com

You can generally find these sites by simply entering your suspected junk caller's number as a ten-digit number (without spaces or dashes) in Google's search box. If it's junk, other people will probably have reported it already and you can click through from the Google search results to these sites and add your own report.

Here is my own list, which I am no longer updating, and which I will probably delete from my site in a while.

These are listings of calls to my home phones. I can document those. I don't list any calls reported by others.

I have listed here numbers which I consider to be junk callers. That definition, in my view, consists of callers (as identified by their Caller ID) who:

• are calling from a number that I do not know and have not authorized calls from (possibly excluding very fine print which cannot be considered as moral acceptance)
• have called me more than once
• have no useful "name" in their Caller ID
• have never left a voice message on my answering machine

Note that I do have a Discover card, and I do have a Nextel phone. While that may make their calls legal, it does not excuse the behavior described above.

Callers

If anyone listed here feels that they are listed in error, they are invited to call me and speak to me (or my answering machine) and try to justify themselves. But they'd better call from another phone number. These are blocked here.

Community

I am both pleased and saddened to see, from my web server log, that there are a lot of people out there who are looking for information about these callers. Within a couple of days of my adding this page to my site, and the search engines indexing it, I've gotten lots of hits searching on these phone numbers. That proves to me that I'm not alone. I wish I could do more to knock out these abusers.

As I discover the identities of these callers, I will add those to this list. If they wish, I will add their claimed justifications below for others to consider.

There's at least one other site working on this problem. It is at htyp.org. Check it out.

And another one (added May 2006) at whocalled.us.

Offenders

Here are recent (since about April 2002) callers, preceded by the number of calls they have made without identifying themselves directly or by answering machine, sorted by phone number: