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 looking for. Even if you skimmed through numerous internet articles on the subject, just hoping that someone would fill you in on that hidden website, I am sure you didn't find what you were searching for.

This is because there is no elusive website. If 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 immediately. This is a service in hot demand since cell phone numbers are not compiled in the same manner as landline numbers.

Listing all listed cell phone numbers in a publically accessible location would make life easier when you want to discover exactly who is calling you, but it would also take away some of the attraction of a cell phone. There is a level of security trusting that a bill collector can't just look up your cell number and start calling nonstop.

Articles and other internet resources claiming to provide free reverse phone look up for cellular numbers typically rely on methods that plainly are not worthwhile and rarely, if ever, produce the results you are looking for. Following their advice will be a big waste of time, for very sound reason.

Search Engines

Some sources recommend going to Google or any other internet search engine and quickly searching for the phone number of concern. This is believed to guide you to webpages where the registered user of that number has stored their contact information, which may include their cell number. The drawback is very few people list their cell phone number on the web for the very same reason most people would prefer it not be accessible in a directory for the general public: they don't want random people calling their cell.

It is sometimes believed that these numbers may be collected from auction sites like EBay or shopping webpages where the person may have made a purchase, but this is quite useless to your situation. These sites do not openly reveal contact information used to make a purchase, because no one would buy from them online. When you pay for an item online, including Ebay, you use a protected set up where your information is not open to public viewing. A search engine is not going to go through the contact records of a shopping site and pull out a cell phone number. It simply doesn't work like that.

Also, you cannot find someone's personal information from a phone number saved auction sites, and even if you could the most benefit it would provide you is a screen name, which is likely to be just as informative as the phone number you already have.

Myth #2: Online Phone Directories

If you could go to whitepages.com or other phone directories and find private information just from a cell number then there wouldn't be such a high demand for cell phone number reverse lookup directories. Anyone recommending you enter a cell phone number at these common sites in attempt to find the cell phone owner is throwing away space and time. Enough said.

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