• Online form for recording telemarketing calls.

(fill in the form and print it out for a record of telemarketing calls)

• You can use this table to see if the telemarketer is already known.

• Registered Agent or Vendor look up from the Texas Comptrollers Office

• Harris County Assumed Name look up

• Fort Bend County Assumed Name look up. (Enter date range and business name in grantee last name)

• Dallas County Assumed Name look up

• Tarrant County Assumed Name look up.
  

• Bexar County (San Antonio) Assumed Name look up.

• Harris County Voters Registration records.

• Harris County Home & Business Tax records.

• Texas County Tax Record links.
  

• Address, phone, reverse phone, reverse address look up at the Ultimate Yellow Pages.

• Find the switch box the call originated from at FoneFinder and at DSLReports

• Resident Agent for US Corporations.

• Secretaries of State - US Corporations resident agent search.
  

• Dun and Bradstreet business lookup.

• Texas Department of Insurance - agent lookup

• Texas Plumber, Air Conditioning, etc. License Search

• Travis County CAD lookup

• Montgomery County Property Records

• Texas Commission on Private Security Alarm sellers and installers: Company or Individual search.
  

• Texas Real Estate Commission- licensee info search.

• Check on the tax-exempt status of a company with the IRS.
  

Sometimes it takes a little luck to track down a telemarketer. Using all of the above should help but you may find them in one database and not another. It will take some time and patience. See the example below.

Example:
 

1. I received this prerecorded telephone solicitation with a company name in the message of B&B Pressure Washing. This company did not exist in the assumed names database.
2. There was a telephone number within the message. I called that number and got a first name (Robert).
3. At this point all I had was the caller ID number/name and the first name I got in my call to the company.
4. I looked up the caller ID number and determined it originated in the Seabrook, Texas area.
5. The name on caller ID (Tracy Holloway) turned up a company called TRK Wholesale Express in the assumed name database. The address for this company was also in Seabrook, Texas.
6. I looked up marriage records and was able to tie the first name from my call to the company and the name on caller ID together. Tracy Holloway had married Robert Koetting hence the TRK (Tracey Renee Koetting) Wholesale Express.
7. Voters registration database confirmed the Seabrook address as well.

This took me about a half hour to do. Not all of them are this easy. In some cases it has taken several weeks for a call back from the telemarketer or getting subpoenaed information from the phone company.