Reverse Phone Lookup

Looking for Phone Number Information?

There are many reasons why you need to find a number and the Internet seems like the ideal place to do a reverse phone look up. As with a phone directory you’d expect this to be free, after all Verizon, Sprint, Telus in Canada and all of the other phone companies provide free phone directories, so why not online?

Want the Good News or the Bad News?

Well there’s good news and bad news.  Some of the directories have made it online so it’s a good starting point for free lookups. Say you want to confirm a residential phone number you can use a reverse phone directory such as white pages. Perhaps it’s a friends number and you want to confirm it’s correct, or you just want to be sure not to call the wrong number. You enter the number and it will tell you who owns the number and their location – providing they are not excluded from the directory  (which more and more are thanks to tele sales). If it’s a cell phone number, a business number or a fax number then you’re out of luck.

Part of the problem is that there is no central database of cell phone numbers, so the free services do not have access to the information you’re looking for and any de-listed numbers will be removed from the database so they are not available to the free reverse phone search es.

What are Your Best Options?

If you search for any of the ‘free reverse phone look up’ services you’ll notice that there are loads of ads offering free services. Are these genuine? Well sorry but no they are not, they are just teasers for a paid look up. But don’t despair they are not trying to scam you out of your hard earned cash (at least not all of them are). These are premium databases of millions of phone numbers with their associated data, gathered from all of the major (and some of the smaller) networks – providing you find a reputable site!

It’s worth noting that the databases offered these companies do differ to some degree, but almost all include residential, business, cell phone numbers and even some toll-free numbers and pagers. Also these websites state that the searches you make are guaranteed legal and confidential.

How Do You Find a Reputable site?

Great question! The best reverse phone look up site currently on the internet is the Reverse Phone Detective.  It allows you to do an initial check for free and will tell you the types of results it’s found. Now if you want to dig into all of the information then you’ll need to spend a little money. There are several payment options designed to suit all budgets that will allow you to use their service.

Using the search results allows you to research a puzzling phone bill entry, trace an unwanted caller or verify an address. Reverse Phone Detective offers an excellent reverse phone lookup service that will give you a ton of information on every caller for a small cost. To find out more please enter your number into the search box below in the format 123-456-7890

But What Type Of Information Can I get For Free?

Start off using the search box above and click the search button. You’ll see what the Reverse Phone Detective has by way of information. It will show you the location of the account owner and the details that will be shown in the full report. If you need a little more details then your first search should be with the phone number in quotes; i.e. “123-456-7890”, using the main search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo and Alta Vista). If you’re lucky the owner will have used the number somewhere on a contact page on a website and you’ll find the information you’re looking for. This does not always work as most people prefer not to publish their phone numbers to the general public, but you might get lucky.

If you lucked out, then the next step is to try the public online phone directories. There’s really no point in going to several directories as they all share the same database, so they’ll all give you the same results. The White Pages is probably the most famous of the online directories. If you still didn’t get the information you’re looking for then you can return to the Reverse Phone Detective and get your report.

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