Reverse phone lookup directories provide a service which you can use to look up cell phone number owners. There are a lot of sites on the internet which claim they can do these lookups, but do these sites actually work, or is it some large scale scam? The short answer is that they are not scam, not all of them anyway. The long and detailed answer to how they work and how you can use them in the best possible way follows below. Also read on to discover how to avoid being scammed by the less-than-reputable reverse phone search directories.
Let’s start by taking a look at what exactly it is to reverse look up cell phone number owners. A regular lookup is the lookup you do in a phonebook using the name of a person. The phone book will list the phone number of that person, if that person has not requested to be removed from the directory. A reverse look up is one in which you search using a phone number, and want to find out the name of the person who owns and likely uses that number. This situation, when you have a phone number but do not know who owns it, may arise in a number of ways. For example, if you met someone at some social gathering and exchanged numbers, but then forgot who it was that you met. Since you exchanged a lot of numbers, you may end up with a phone number and not know who the owner is. This is one of the most benign examples. In other cases, it may happen that you receive prank calls from some unknown number.
Many directories hold data for landline number and offers the reverse lookup service for free. This is possible because the landline records are in public domain, except for the do not call numbers. But you will not get any free service if you want to reverse trace a cell phone number. The cell phone companies keep the record of their cell phone subscribers private, and hence no other company or individual can access them without the cell phone company’s permission and consent. Cell phone companies usually take small fee to give permission to access these records. They take this fee from the reverse lookup directories, with whom they share their databases. These databases are actually leased to the directory companies. Whenever you access the records for a phone number, you will have to pay the company running the reverse directory, which in turn will share that revenue with the cell phone company.
The fee for this service is low; you should be able to look up cell phone number owners just under $15. Here is what you get for this fee:
- The name of the owner
- The address of the owner
- Household income if available
- Previous addresses
Not all of this information is guaranteed and sometimes a name and address is all you get. But even knowing a name and address is a success, especially when compared to staring at a number not knowing who’s it is.
Another service these directories provide is a preliminary lookup, for free. This look up lets you know if the number you are interested in is available in the company database. And the free preliminary reverse search usually reveals the following 3 things:
- If the number is a cell phone or land line
- Where in the world the number is located within a 50 mile radius
- If there is more information about that number in the database
Once you make know that the number is available in the company database, you can then go ahead and purchase the reverse look up to get all of the information. These companies usually offer 100% money back guarantee. So if you are somehow not able to get the desired information from these companies, they will refund your money. But you have to be careful about how you use them. For example if you do the preliminary search for one number and after seeing it is present in the directory then purchase the service and look up some other number which you are not able to find, you will not be able to get any money back. That is because you are only guaranteed information about the number for which you did the preliminary search.
Keep these things in mind when you look up cell phone number owners and it will be a breeze. Once you have the name and address of the person, you can then track them using other services that help trace people using their name and other information. Plus, a name is eminently searchable on Google; the possibilities are endless. As we see that reverse phone lookup directories are not at all scams, a small fee is quite worthwhile for the service they provide.
I have found the 4 most reputable directories to help you look up cell phone number owners. Try a free preliminary reverse cell phone number search today (scroll to the bottom of that page).
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