This article will teach you how to find out who owns any fax number. I’ll tell you a story about a time when I desperately needed to get in touch with the owner of a fax number and how I ended up using a reverse fax number lookup service to locate them.
About three years ago my family began receiving a constant barrage of phone calls. The phone rang literally every few minutes and at all hours of the day. And every time we picked up the receiver, we heard the deafening screeching of a fax machine trying to connect.
At first it was just an inconvenience. We would answer the phone and hear the fax machine screeching from the other end of the line and immediately hang up. But before long the calls were almost constant. The phone woke us up countless times in the middle of the night and my kids couldn’t get their afternoon naps. It got so bad that we ended up disconnecting all the phones in the house in
night just so we could get some sleep.
Now, obviously, we were doing everything we could to find out what was going on. We called the phone company and asked if there was a problem with the line, but they were no help at all.
We have caller ID so we were able to see the number the call was originating from. But there were several different numbers, and every time we called one, only a fax machine greeted us. I can’t tell you how frustrating that was!
Finally, we were about to give up and change our number. We really didn’t want to since we had the number for years and all our friends and family already had it. Contacting our relatives abroad to give them a new number would have been a huge inconvenience.
Fortunately, one of my friends suggested that we use a reverse fax number lookup service. We did a search on several of the fax numbers that called us and were able to get their name, address, and phone number. We called each of them and found that they were all wholesale distributors and each one was trying to fax an order to a jewelry manufacturer in our area.
To make a long story short, it turned out that the jewelry manufacturer had mailed out an advertisement to several hundred wholesalers. There was a typo in the ad that resulted in our phone number being printed instead of the manufacturer.
Fortunately for us, the manufacturer was quick to put things right once they realized a mistake had been made. They even sent me a beautiful pair of earrings to apologize for the inconvenience!