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Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :

If you're the paranoid type, you might go to google and type in your area code and phone number. If you are in there, it comes back with your name, address and a yahoo map to your house. [Eek!]

Of course, I'm not in there, but you might be. The thought of someone being able to get a map to your house that easily creeps me out.

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

I'm not in there but my parents are... kind of useful really, I've always wanted to be able to reverse phone-numbers to names.

Hobbes [Smile]

Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :

There are a number of sites out there that have been doing reverse lookups of telephone numbers for a long time, http://www.anywho.com being one of them. I haven't seen any others that provided a map to the house yet, though.

I use this sort of thing when somebody calls my phone and hangs up right away, but I'm still curious to find out who it was.

Edit: The next time you get a package sent to you in the mail and you have a tracking number for it, try entering the tracking number right into Google. It will usually come up with a link directly to the tracking page for your package. Pretty nifty, eh?

Anybody know other cool stuff you can look for on Google?

[ February 01, 2005, 09:47 AM: Message edited by: Nato ]

Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :

Hmmm. Mine works. But since I'm listed in the phone book, that doesn't surprise me. And if someone knows my phone number, they probably know my name, and could have gotten my address from the phone book and typed it into mapquest themselves and gotten the exactly same information. So this doesn't really bother me.

I am paranoid enough to be listed under my initials instead of my full name, though, and that is what shows up here.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

Google and Mapquest give directions to somebody else's house when you put in my address.... found that one out last night when I had a visitor get lost trying to find me using Mapquest's instructions!!

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Doesn't happen with my phone number. [Dont Know]

Not that that's a bad thing.

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

I just filled out the form to have mine removed. That's a little...well...

I suppose if your number is listed in the phone book, anyone could find you online and a map to your house. But ours isn't listed in the phone book, so I figured it shouldn't be listed here.

Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :

Thanks for the warning Kayla, my google guru. [Smile]

I removed my parent's listing.

Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :

just fyi... a telecom company that knows what they are doing can send whatever number they want for caller-id. meaning, don't rely on caller-id to tell you who it was that called because it can be misleading.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

gnixing, my brother knows how to do that. it's something along the lines of *69 (but with a different code). if I remember it, I'll ask him about it next time I see him. That could potentially come in handy at times.