Features Of Spokeo
To accomplish the task of fetching accurate information, Spokeo comes with some pretty cool features you can’t find on some other reverse phone lookup services. Let’s take a look at some of them.
1. Standard People Search Option
Spokeo will spit out information on any phone number you input into the platform. Its standard search option will provide information like name, email, address, or even alternate phone numbers. However, paid plans provide more detailed information. Therefore if you’re looking for more information than name and email address, go for the paid services. The free version will indeed give you accurate information but it would be limited and even useless if you need a detailed report.
2. Geo-Grouping Algorithm
While Spokeo is a powerful reverse phone number lookup service, it can also take names as an input variable. For instance, you can input John Wright and it will pull up all the John Wrights in its database and their information. However, that will be plenty for you to go through. With its geo-grouping algorithm, Spokeo is able to group your search results based on geographical location. Therefore entering the state alongside the name will narrow down the search.
3. Spokeo Connections
If you’re one with many friends in real life and on social media, then you probably find it difficult to keep up with all the updates. Spokeo connections organize all your friends’ social media profiles and put them in one place. Doing this allows you to keep up with all necessary updates without toggling between profiles. Currently Spokeo has a 30-day free trial for its connection feature, you can try it out.
4. Public Search Directory
Spokeo boasts of a massive public directory with over 300 million records. Fortunately this data isn’t company or user generated, rather they are publicly available. To get the most appropriate result, this reverse lookup service also uses data from third party services such as Criteo and Google.
5. Identity Protect
Identity theft is nothing new to your ears. Scammers can impersonate you and authorize transactions that can ruin your life. Spokeo’s Identity Protect prevents this from happening. It involves dark web monitoring, credit card monitoring, social security number monitoring, monthly credit report and a whole lot more. This will make your personal information near impossible to fall into the wrong hands.
6. Criminal and Court Records
For any background check you run, you have the opportunity to check their criminal background as well. Spokeo is able to get correct data on people’s past or present conviction, serving time, public arrest record, pending criminal cases, etc. Therefore you can easily access the criminal status of anyone you’re doing a background check on.
7. Identifies Unknown Calls and Texts
This is the main feature we’re concerned about. Spokeo is able to identify unknown phone numbers that have been calling or sending you texts. Therefore you can easily know whether the unknown number belongs to someone you know or not. With such identification you can easily ignore or block the number when necessary.