Telephone Reverse Number Lookup

SL Davis asked:


If you need to find out to whom a telephone number belongs you will want to read this article.

The first thing you will want to do is find a reverse phone book lookup service. By the way if you are unfamiliar with this type of service, here is how they work: You enter a phone number into their database. A search is then made and if they have the phone number on record you will find out within seconds. If they do have a record for the phone number you are looking into they will tell you how much it costs to access the information. That’s all there is to it.

Next, you need to select a reverse phone book lookup service.How do you go about choosing a company? Some of things I would look for when considering a service would be the size of their database and if it includes records for cell phones. I would also want to make sure they offer some sort of money-back guarantee if I did a search and there was no record found for the phone number I was researching.

Another important feature I would look for is a search box on their website where I could enter the telephone number I am researching to see if they have a record for it. Of course pricing is important. I would look for a reverse phone book lookup service that has competitive pricing. The ones I have come across charge approximately $10 to $15 for a one-time search.

So how can you find out the size of the service’s database, whether or not they have cell phone records in their database;or if they have a money-back guarantee, etc? Their main website page should answers some or all of these questions. If it doesn’t check their FAQ page if they have one.

Once you’ve picked out the reverse phone book lookup company you want to use it’s just a matter of entering in the phone number to find out to whom a phone number belongs.

John Wood asked:


I am certain, at times you’ve had a phone number show up on your cellular phones caller ID that you do not know, you might know already how difficult it is to determine who that phone number belongs to using free reverse search directories on the net.

The reason for this is because cellular phone numbers aren’t publically listed in common telephone directories either online or off line. This could change in the future but presently the U.S. federal government presently prevents cellular phone companies from been able to issue cellular phone numbers of their customers.

Below you’ll discover four tips that you are able to utilize to be more successful in your reverse cellular phone search attempts:

1. Calling up the telephone number. Yes this is the easy, simple answer but a lot of folks do not want to call a number back if they do not know who it is. Whenever you make up one’s mind to give the telephone number a call back and do not prefer to do it from your mobile or land line you could use a public telephone booth. Call the number and whenever somebody picks up enquire who’s talking. This is the easiest answer to determining an strange telephone caller.

2. Jump online and go to Google.com and try typing the cellular phone number into the search field. you may get lucky. Just about everyone is online these days and have their own blogs, bulletin boards, Face Book accounts or MySpace profiles they post to. You’d be astonished how many cellular phone numbers get added to the Google index because people post it to their web log or somewhere else online they frequent.

3. You could call a private investigator and determine how much it will cost you to have them run a reverse cellular phone number lookup for you. They’ll probably quote you anywhere between $70 – $200 per telephone number looked for. That is pretty high fee but most reputable private detectives will only charge you if they are successful in their hunt, you may prefer to have that in writing up front if you use a private investigator to do your reverse lookup.

4. For a low join fee you are able to get access to premium reverse cell phone lookup services. These sites plege that you will receive instant, accurate results or you will get a refund. Many of them have millions of cell phone records covering the entire United States and you can run as many number searches as you wish. Plus many of them offer features such as been able to run advanced background checks on people so you are able to ascertain who their relatives are, their neighbors, even their previous addresses

So there you go. If you utilize one or a few of the tips found above I am certain you’ll be successful in determining who that mysterious telephone number belongs to. Maybe begin with calling the telephone number back, and then lookup Google and then decide if you prefer to pay a private detective hundreds of dollars or use a premium lookup service for a low fee and get your answer in seconds.

Ricky Lim asked:


As opposed to a normal telephone directory, which is referred to as the yellow pages, there is also something called “gray pages”, or reverse telephone directory. These telephone directories are markedly different from yellow pages in the sense that instead of allowing a person to look for phone numbers by looking at names, it features phone number listings that are used to look for people’s names.

There are two kinds of gray pages, which can be differentiated by the kind of phone numbers that they contain. The first kind only contains publicly accessible numbers while the second includes private services that are normally unlisted. The first type is usually accessible through telecommunications carriers in some countries while the second, restricted kind are reserved only for law enforcement agencies and providers of emergency services.

These past few years, a lot of websites have popped up offering the second kind of gray pages, and offering free reverse phone numbers to the general public. However, the term “free” is used very loosely, as they usually require a nominal fee and some of these offers are scams that seek to prey on people who try to dabble in legally dubious undertakings.

There are also listings of free reverse phone numbers that are made by phone phreakers who are looking for something to do with their skills. These phreakers usually just gather the numbers and info from publicly accessible directories and just code a search function into the database, so there is no harm in what they are doing, and usually within the bounds of law.

Although there are many free reverse phone number scams online, there are a few genuine and legitimate reverse phone number sites that provides detailed information on the person behind that phone or cell phone number.

I find paid reverse phone number directories to be better because they have a larger database and their records are kept more up to date compared to free reverse phone sites. Although you need to pay a fee, the cost is affordable and the results are more accurate.