Thursday, July 17, 2008

What Is a Reverse Phone Look up

By Pauline Stradlen

A service that allows you to look at information on a person's phone number is very useful these days when almost everybody has both a cellphone and a landline, think about this for example, you have written down a person's number but can't remember who it was that give it to you. If it is a landline number it is relatively easy to use a reverse lookup service to get all the information about the owner. If the number is a cellphone however, it can be slightly more difficult. The main reason for that extra difficulty is that the information on cellphone numbers are held independently by the individual carrier companies, and therefore the free directories don't have access to this information.

It is possible to gain access to this information though, unfortunately not for free. There are several sites that hold databases on both residential and mobile phone numbers. The phone number records that are held by the phone companies are sold to other third party companies who can access the details for you for a fee.

There is a large amount of information available on these databases, not only names and addresses, but also civil records, criminal records, and any information you need for a background check. You can often search as many numbers as you like for a small one-time fee, and you can also search for information on unlisted numbers.

The information that you can obtain from a good paid service, is equal to that you would pay top dollar to a private investigator for. This information can be used to carry out background checks on new employees, babysitters, your daughters new boyfriend, the uses are virtually endless.

Be wary of sites that offer a free reverse phone number lookup as in my experience they are merely covers for paid companies. I have never found a free service that has access to both cell phone and landline data. Most of these sites will let you run the search for free but will then charge you to see or download the results, which can be very frustrating.

You will often be redirected to a sister site where you'll end up paying for a service. You need to remember that good quality sites which charge you for a reverse phone lockup do so for a reason. This is because they are legally entitled to access large databases, and they pay for this privilege. These types of sites also offer a moneyback guarantee, which will give you extra peace of mind.

There are a hundred different reasons why you would want to run a reverse phone number look up, if you are suspicious your husband is cheating, or your teenager is running with a bad crowd. Whatever your reason these are very useful tools that everyone will be using in the future.

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