If you have been looking for a website 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 are looking for. Even if you perused through various web based articles on cell phone lookup, just hoping that someone would reveal that hidden website, I am positive you didn't find what you were searching for.

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

Listing all listed cell phone numbers in a publically accessible location would make life easier when you want to find out exactly who is bothering you, but it would also take away some of the perks of a cell phone. There is a level of comfort knowing that a telemarketer can't just dial your cell number and start calling nonstop.

Articles and websites offering free reverse phone look up for cell phone numbers typically rely on methods that actually are not accurate and very rarely produce the useful information you are looking for. Following their advice will be a big waste of time, and here is why.

Search Engines

Some websites suggest going to Google or any other internet search engine and simply searching for the phone number in question. This is supposed to direct you to websites where the owner of that cell phone number has listed their personal details, which may include their cell number. The drawback is very few people post their cell phone number on the web for the very same reason most people would rather it not be accessible in a directory for anyone to search: they don't want random people calling their cell phone.

It is often reported that cell phone numbers may be retrieved from auction sites such as EBay or shopping sites where the person may have made a purchase, but this is quite useless to you. Shopping sites should never reveal contact information used in a purchase, because no one would purchase from them over the internet. When you pay for an item online, EBay included, you use a protected forum where your blocked from public viewing. A search engine is not going to search the contact records of a shopping source and find a phone number. It simply doesn't work in that manner.

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

Myth #2: Online Phone Directories

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

The only legitimate way to identify the name listed under that number that has you worried is to pay a minor charge to a trustworthy reverse phone lookup directory. Some listings may require a very minor fee to access the directory for one lookup, while others may deliver you access to an endless number of searches. No matter how much information you get for your dollar, the fee should be rather inexpensive with a legitimate service.