If you have been searching for a resource offering completely free reverse phone number look up for a cell phone number, you are probably exhausted and still don't have the information you need. Even if you read through endless web based articles on the subject, just hoping that someone would mention that hidden website, I am positive you didn't find what you were looking for.

That is because there is no secret website. If free cell phone reverse lookup was available, it wouldn't be hard to come by because it would be spread by word of mouth over night. This is a service in hot demand since cell phone numbers are not compiled in the same manner as landline numbers.

compiling all registered cell phone numbers in a publically accessible location would make life simpler when you want to find out exactly who is trying to contact you, but it would also eliminate some of the attraction that come with a cell phone. There is a level of security knowing that a bill collector can't just look up your cell number and begin calling nonstop.

Articles and websites claiming to provide free reverse phone look up for cellular numbers often rely on methods that actually are not accurate and rarely, if ever, provide the useful information you need. Listening to their advice will be a huge waste of time, and here is why.

Myth #1: Using Search Engines

Some sources recommend going to Google or any other internet search engine and quickly searching for the phone number in question. This is rumored to lead you to webpages where the listed owner of that number has stored their contact information, which may include their cell number. The problem is very few people post their cell phone number on websites for the very same reason most people would rather it not be accessible in a phone book for anyone to search: they don't want random people calling their cell phone.

It is often believed that cell phone numbers may be pulled from auction sites such as EBay or shopping sites where the owner may have made a purchase, but this is quite useless to you. These sites should never reveal contact information used in a purchase, otherwise no one would purchase from them over the internet. When you purchase an item online, such as Ebay, you use a protected site where your secured from public viewing. A search engine is not going to dig through the personal information of a shopping source and retrieve a cell phone number. It just doesn't work like that.

Also, you cannot get someone's private records from a phone number stored EBay, and even if you could the most it could give you is a screen name, which is likely to be just as useful as the phone number you already have.

Internet Phone Books

If you could go to yellopages.com or other phone directories and find more detailed information only from a cell number then there wouldn't be such a hot search for cell phone number reverse lookup directories. Anyone advising you to enter a cell phone number at these phone book sites in order to retrieve the cell phone owner is throwing away space and time. Enough said.

The only legitimate way to retrieve the name listed under that number that has you curious is to render a minor price to a legitimate reverse phone lookup service. Some listings may charge a very minor fee to access the directory for one number search, while others may grant you access to unlimited lookups. No matter what you get for your money, the charge should be rather cheap for a legitimate directory.