Monday, January 4, 2010

Curiosity Drives Reverse Cell Phone Lookup

By Lucas Mattioneli

Is it possible to find out who call us using the internet? Many people have become disillusioned and irritated in the past with site which seem to offer free stuff or services online but in reality don't. Is this the case with cell phone lookups?

To begin with let us examine exactly what I mean by a phone number lookup. If you have in your possession a residential phone number but no idea who is the person calling you or what address it relates to you can use a "reverse lookup" service to find out those details. This can obviously be very useful in situations where you have lost contact with someone but still have a record of their phone number, or simply wish to verify who owns the number before mistakenly phoning the wrong number. There are many places you can perform such residential and business phone lookups online free of charge, including toll-free numbers.

On the other hand, a problem arises when you need to run a reverse lookup on a cellphone as the free directories do not offer this kind of service. Similarly they do not contain fax numbers as this information is only held by the phone carriers and telecommunications companies. How can I find those records? Do they exist? Can I use the servie for free?

The good news is there are services available that offer large numbers of cell phone numbers, but they are not free. Naturally those kind of services has to pay in order to have access to the database which the cell phone numbers are, and go to the considerable trouble of pulling all the various resources together in one place, and as a result you will be charged a small fee before we can access the lookup databases. The again the fee is a one time payment and with some web services you can run as many searches as you like, with others for a lower fee they offer a single lookup. The records they claim to offer include cell phone owner details, address history, carrier details, and the phone connection status. It is also worth noting that the databases offered by each company differ to some degree, but most of them include cell phones and often residential, business, toll-free, even pagers, and these websites say your searches are guaranteed legal and confidential.

Additionall to reverse lookups there are also similar websites which offer access to of information such as background checks and background reports, people finder databases, bankruptcies, liens, public records databases including births, deaths, marriages, divorces and adoptions, sex offender records, police records, and much more. These sites work in the same way, they offer access to the database full of information for a fee, however it should be said that you will not be given access to such information as part of your cell phone lookup site membership.

I have seen websites claiming to offer free cell lookups, but they always lead eventually to the paid sites in the end, even allowing people to search for free and then charging to view the results. It is the sad truth that the only place where you are likely to find detailed reverse cell records is within the legitimate paid directories. To wrap up, the answer is no, free cell phone lookups do not exist. However, if you really need to access such records then I believe paying a small fee is a price worth paying.

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