If you have been looking for a website 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 need. Even if you read through various internet articles on cell phone lookup, just hoping that someone would mention that hidden website, I am positive you didn't find what you were looking for.

This is because there is no secret website. If completely free cell phone reverse lookup was out there, 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 listed in the same manner as landline numbers.

Listing all registered cell phone numbers in a completely open directory would make life easier when you want to know exactly who is bothering you, but it would also take away some of the perks 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 start calling nonstop.

Articles and websites claiming to provide free reverse phone look up for cell phone numbers often rely on methods that simply are not worthwhile and rarely, if ever, produce the results you need. Listening to their directions will be a huge waste of time, for very sound reason.

Myth #1: Using Search Engines

Some websites suggest going to Google or any other internet search engine and simply searching for the phone number of curiosity. This is supposed to lead you to webpages where the owner of that number has listed their contact information, which may include the cell phone 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 broadcasted in a phone book for anyone to search: they don't want strange people calling their cell phone.

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

Also, you cannot find someone's private records from a phone number saved auction sites, 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 started with.

Internet Phone Books

If you could go to yellopages.com or other phone listings and identify personal information only from a cell number then there wouldn't be such a hot search for cell phone number reverse lookup directories. Anyone claiming you should type in a cell phone number at these phone book sites in order to retrieve the cell phone owner is throwing away space and time. Simple as that.

The only effective way to retrieve the name connected with that number that has you curious is to pay a small price to a legitimate reverse phone lookup service. Some directories may charge a very minor fee to utilize the service for one lookup, while others may grant you access to an endless number of lookups. No matter what you get for your money, the charge should be rather cheap for a reputable service.