Weird reverse phone lookup sites

When I’m searching phone numbers online, or at least reverse searching them, often the usuall suspects show up.

  • Spokeo
  • Whitepages.com
  • Fastpeople Search
  • Radaris
  • etc…

and other various people finder sites

There are probably some I am forgetting…

Sometimes I run into a site that appears to have a treasure of information on the number’s owner. On further investigation, these appear to be fake and they have a ton of information on number, plus addresses for these. There is just something off about the listings and entries. The biggest among these are tel2name.com, but there appear to be other sites that are “reclaimed”. Some examples I’ve run into before (but may not be active any longer):

Tel2Name appears to be the biggest one of these, and working my way down to known numbers gives some hilarious names back (these used to have addresses with the name, but not anymore). I almost suspect that Tel2Name is the “parent” of these other sites.

Tel2Name example

What does The Wayback Machine have?