If you have been looking for a site featuring completely free reverse phone number look up for a cell phone number, you are probably exhausted and still don't have the information you are looking for. Even if you read through endless ezine articles on cell phone lookup, just hoping that someone would fill you in on that hidden website, I am positive you didn't find what you were looking for.

This is because there is no secret website. If free cell phone reverse lookup was possible, it wouldn't be hard to come by because it would be spread around town immediately. This is a service in hot demand since cell phone numbers are not listed in the same way as home phone numbers.

compiling all registered cell phone numbers in a publically accessible directory would make life simpler when you want to find out exactly who is bothering you, but it would also eliminate some of the perks that come with a cell phone. There is a level of comfort knowing that a bill collector can't just dial your cell number and begin calling at all hours.

Articles and websites claiming to provide free reverse phone look up for cellular numbers usually rely on ideas that plainly are not effective and very rarely provide the useful information you are looking for. Listening to their advice will be a huge waste of time, for very sound reason.

Myth #1: Using Search Engines

Some websites suggest going to Google or whatever search engine you prefer and quickly searching for the phone number of curiosity. This is rumored to direct you to sites where the listed owner of that number has stored their personal details, which may include the cell phone number. The drawback is very few people use their cell phone number on the web for the exact reason the majority of people would rather it not be accessible in a directory for anyone to search: they don't want random people calling their cell.

It is sometimes suggested that cell phone numbers may be collected from auction sites such as EBay or shopping webpages where the owner may have made a purchase, but this is quite useless to your situation. Shopping sites should never reveal personal information used in a purchase, because no one would purchase from them over the internet. When you buy an item online, including Ebay, you use a protected site where your information is not open to public access. A search engine is not going to dig through the personal information of a shopping source and pull out a phone number. It simply doesn't work that way.

Also, you cannot retrieve someone's personal information from a phone number saved auction sites, and even if you could the most it would lead you to is a screen name, which is likely to be just as useful as the phone number you already have.

Myth #2: Online Phone Directories

If you could go to whitepages.com or other phone listings and retrieve private information only from a cell phone number then there wouldn't be such a high demand for cell phone number reverse lookup services. Anyone recommending you enter a cell phone number at these phone book sites in attempt to retrieve the cell phone owner is wasting space and time. Enough said.

The only effective way to identify the name listed under that number that has you worried is to pay a nominal charge to a trustworthy reverse phone lookup website. Some directories may require a very nominal fee to access the directory for one lookup, while others may deliver you access to unlimited searches. No matter what you get for your dollar, the fee should be relatively cheap for a legitimate service.