| What is great about finding information online is that | | | | business calls your home or mobile phone with an 800 |
| you can usually find what you want within minutes if | | | | or 888 number. All that tells you is that the number is |
| not seconds. What is not so great is that you can | | | | toll free. Other times, those with less than honorable |
| never quite be sure what you are reading is right or | | | | intentions may use what is called call spoofing. This is |
| even truthful. It really depends on what you want to | | | | when they use software or a small machine to |
| know and what sites you choose to believe. In any | | | | change their phone number. A number may appear on |
| case, there are some straightforward things that you | | | | your caller ID suggesting they are in Florida when in |
| can look up, and one of those things is information on | | | | fact they are calling from Pennsylvania. Other than |
| any area code. | | | | that, however, you can trace a call with an area code |
| The area code is the first three numbers of the | | | | search. |
| number in question. Looking up that code can tell you | | | | You can find out more about an area code by looking |
| from where any phone call might be coming. Though in | | | | in the front of the phone book you get delivered to |
| the past when there were far fewer codes this did | | | | your home each year. The problem with this is that |
| not give you much to go on, today that is not the case. | | | | new codes are added when needed, and that might |
| Almost every state within the US has had to add at | | | | make your map a bit obsolete because that book |
| least one new code to keep up with demand for cell | | | | comes just once a year. You are going to get more |
| phone numbers. Instead of looking up a code to see | | | | up-to-date information when you use a search engine |
| the name of a state, you will more likely see an area | | | | to search the code or to look for an area code map. |
| within a state. That area can be small and very | | | | It probably won't take you very long to do your area |
| specific. | | | | code search, but you may want to know more about |
| There are going to be times when you can not learn | | | | that code. You can search other sites online that can |
| much from an area code. This happens when a | | | | tell you some interesting facts about any area code. |