If you have been searching for a site offering 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 internet articles on the subject, just hoping that someone would fill you in on that secret website, I am positive you didn't find what you were looking for.

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

Listing all registered cell phone numbers in a publically accessible directory would make life simpler when you need to know exactly who is trying to contact you, but it would also take away some of the perks that come with a cell phone. There is a level of comfort knowing that a telemarketer can't just purchase your cell number and begin calling at all hours.

Articles and other internet resources offering free reverse phone look up for cellular numbers often rely on theories that simply are not effective and very rarely provide the results you want. Following their advice will be a big waste of time, for very sound reason.

Search Engines

Some websites recommend going to Google or whatever search engine you prefer and quickly searching for the phone number of curiosity. This is supposed to lead you to webpages where the registered user of that cell phone 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 websites for the exact reason the majority of people would rather it not be posted in a directory for anyone to search: they don't want strange people calling their cell phone.

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

Also, you cannot get 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 informative as the phone number you have now.

Myth #2: Online Phone Directories

If you could go to whitepages.com or other phone directories and retrieve more detailed information just 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 type in a cell phone number at these common sites in attempt to access the cell phone owner is throwing away space and time. Enough said.

The only fast way to retrieve the name connected with that number that has you worried is to pay a small fee to a legitimate reverse phone lookup website. Some websites may require a very nominal fee to access the directory for one number search, while others may give you access to unlimited lookups. No matter how much information you get for your money, the fee should be rather cheap with a reputable service.