Friday, July 25, 2008

What Is a Reverse Phone Look up

By Pauline Stradlen

Almost everybody has a cellphone these days, and a reverse phone number look up is a very useful service. An example where you will need the service would be, you have written down a person's number but cannot remember their name. If the phone number you have written down is a landline number it is simple to use a reverse lookup service to get all the information you need about the owner. It can be slightly more difficult to carry out this sort of service on a cellphone number. This is because the free directories don't have access to mobile phone numbers as they are held by the individual carrier company.

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.

You should be able to access information from a good quality service, that would be equal to anything a private investigator would get you. You can use this information for a variety of different reasons, background checks on new employees, your daughter's new boyfriend, a new babysitter, and anything else you can think of.

I would warn you against sites that offer free reverse phone number look ups, as in my opinion they are often covers for paid companies. I have not yet found a free service that can access both mobile phone and residential information. These sites will normally let you run a search for free but will then charge you for the results, this can be extremely frustrating.

After you have run a search, you will probably be redirected to another site where you will be expected to pay for a service. The good quality sites that will charge you for a reverse phone number look up, do so for a good reason. These sites pay for access to the cellphone companies large databases, and they need to recover these costs. Don't forget that these sites should offer a moneyback guarantee, if they don't then look for another.

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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