If the carpet installer is a licensed contractor or business, in most areas, there will be records of his contact information. If you are persistent you should be able to track this down through the appropriate local or state agencies. For instance, in Florida, you can look up corporations or business names through the Department of State, Division of Corporations. In Florida, all contractors must be licensed through the Division of Business Regulations. Those are both accessible online. Counties keep track of contractors also and that can be traced through the local building department. Just one note though - Florida is an open records state. All public records are required by law to be open to the public, with only a few exceptions. If your state has more restrictive rules about records, you may have problems locating the information. But it is worth a try. Another thought - if the installer was not a licensed contractor, you may be able to get him in trouble simply by trying to locate his info - in which case he has caused his own difficulties. ;-)

Does anyone have advice for reverse email lookups? I've received a couple of emails from gardenweb in the past few days about old posts. The member (you have to be a member to send emails, right?) didn't sign a name nor a username, and I have no idea who this is- can't find them in the member registry using just an email address. I'm not keen on responding to people I don't 'know' unless it's back through GW. DivaD1 had a cyber-stalker of sorts years ago and we're still a bit spooked about our privacy... I'm not going to pay for it (Intelius), but would appreciate other suggestions. And thank you, Sue, for allowing me to skew/hijack your post! (without asking)

Could you call your cell phone company and ask them to check it out?? Another thought, when you bought something did you put in your cell phone # while registering the product, and even some medical center are asking for cell phone numbers also. Also there are ways people can pick up phone numbers electronically and if your friends and relatives are calling you either from a car, motel, and even home, someone can "capture" your phone number.

Yeah, I'm using it even now. It helps me to know where the calls and texts came from. I also used to block unknown phone numbers that called me and bothered me with annoying stuff like advertising. So I decided to look for an application or a site on the internet to know who the owner of the unknown phone number is. I found a great site livesupportrhino.com that provides me a general access to a full report of the person behind the anonymous number. It usually includes the name, location and street. You can also find the list of area codes there.