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

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

Listing all listed cell phone numbers in a publically accessible location would make life easier when you need to discover exactly who is bothering you, but it would also take away some of the appeal that come with a cell phone. There is a level of comfort knowing that a telemarketer can't just dial your cell number and begin calling at all hours.

Articles and websites offering free reverse phone look up for cell phone numbers often rely on ideas that actually are not effective and rarely, if ever, deliver the results you are looking for. Following their advice will be a big waste of time, for very sound reason.

Search Engines

Some sources suggest going to Google or any other internet search engine and quickly searching for the phone number of curiosity. This is supposed to guide 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 post their cell phone number on the web for the very same reason most people would rather it not be accessible in a phone book for the general public: they don't want strange people calling their cell phone.

It is often reported that these numbers may be retrieved from auction sites like EBay or shopping sites where the owner may have previously bought something, but this is quite useless to your situation. Shopping sites do not openly reveal personal information used in a purchase, otherwise no one would purchase from them online. When you buy an item online, such as Ebay, you use a protected site where your blocked from public access. A search engine is not going to dig through the personal information of a shopping site and find a phone number. It simply doesn't work like that.

Also, you cannot retrieve someone's private records from a phone number stored auction sites, and even if you could the most it could give you is a screen name, which is likely to be just as informative as the phone number you have now.

Myth #2: Online Phone Directories

If you could go to yellopages.com or other phone directories and find private information only from a cell phone number then there wouldn't be such a high demand for cell phone number reverse lookup websites. Anyone claiming you should enter a cell phone number at these phone book sites in order to retrieve the cell phone owner is wasting space and time. Simple as that.

The only legitimate way to identify the name listed under that number that has you concerned is to pay a nominal charge to a reputable reverse phone lookup service. Some listings may charge a very small fee to access the service for one lookup, while others may deliver you access to an endless number of searches. No matter which services you get for your money, the fee should be relatively small with a legitimate service.