Sunday, November 8, 2009

Cellular Phone Reverse Search is Available to Anyone


By Duncan Millows

So you are needing to figure out who owns a certain mobile phone number. Perhaps you are getting a lot of prank phone calls. Perhaps there is a number on your partner's phone that you don't know. Perhaps you came across a number in the dresser drawer that you don't know. There are a thousand reasons that you might want to find out who belongs to that number. Sadly, reverse lookups on cell phone numbers are a lot harder to do than reverse lookups of landline numbers. Why is this? This is because mobile phone numbers do not appear in phone directories so that a person's privacy is kept.

Think for a minute what it would be like for telemarketers to be calling your cell phone several times daily trying to get you to buy something. This would certainly occur if cell phone numbers were stored in a public database. In the big scheme of things, maintaining the privacy of these numbers is no doubt a good thing.

Let's get back to the original topic. If the information isn't provided in listings, how can you find out who owns a cell phone number? Naturally, you can try putting the number in a search engine like Google to see if you get any results. This probably won't be effective since people typically don't provide their cell phone numbers on websites that would come up after a search. You could just ask the person by returning the call. You could even act like you're somebody else who needs their data to make records more current. Regardless, this can be a terrible idea. To start, you might catch the owner of the number off guard. Secondly, it might be illegal to act like you're someone you're not.

So, is there an effective, safe, legal and ideally free method to lookup somebody's cell phone number? Lucky, the problem can be solved! Cell phone numbers are still provided in the internal databases of phone businesses, even though they aren't provided in public records or phone books. Naturally, you'll have to have someone else search these databases. Some companies buy access to databases like this from different cell phone companies and put the results together in one large database that has current information on the majority of cell phone numbers in America. It's simple to use this database to do a cell phone number lookup to figure out who owns the number in question. Although access to databases like these isn't always free (since phone companies charge a fee to get this information due to privacy reasons), there is typically a small annual fee, and you can perform an unlimited amount of searches.

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