Typically, when you recall someone you haven't have lost touch with or need to communicate with an acquaintance who you don't have a number for, you simply go to the phone book and find their name. Nowadays, most people do not even take up room in their homes with the oversized paper phone books, but go to websites which have the same information and look it up much quicker.
Yet circumstances occur in in everyday life where they have a phone number and want to identify who it belongs to. Phone books are designed around knowing the name of the business or person you want to reach, so are useless. With cell phones being so widely used these days it gets even more difficult since there isn't a phone number phone book free to the public as with residential numbers. Apparently, technological advances have made another type of number listing necessary.
Reverse phone lookup functions basically what its name states: it reverses the way you usually use a phone number listing. Rather than looking up a name to find a number or address, you look up a phone number to locate the name or even address of whoever the number is listed under.
Most people do not even know this is available, yet with the invention of reverse phone lookup websites it is now possible by many businesses. It is also becoming quite popular with individuals who get curious about a number for for various reasons. It is a new sort of phone book that is likely to outdate the need for paper phone books in the future.
If you are receiving a high volume of unwanted phone calls, whether they are annoying hang ups, distasteful pranks, or even solicitations or collection services who don't reveal who they are but call at all hours, it is possible to figure out just who is making the calls by tapping into one of these websites.
You can check out yellowpages.com and access a free reverse phone lookup website for very basic information or for published home phone numbers, but there are two sorts of information that cannot be found by any other means other than a more detailed directory.
- * If you have a phone number but no additional information and want a name.
- * When you have someone's cell phone or an unlisted landline number and want to find a name, address, or other information. Yellowpages.com is not going to help with this type of information because it is not updated with the information you want.
Reverse phone lookup services spend a lot of time compiling information, double checking that it is as accurate as possible, and maintaining it all in an organized directory so that it may be easily used by consumers as needed.
A good bit of this information collected is not that simple to obtain and some of it must be paid for as well. For example, a legitimate, well maintained listing will have to pay cell phone networks for accurate listings of numbers. As with any business, it is to be expected that you will be required to hand over a small fee to have access to their information.
The deal about the fee is it should be small and reasonable, usually about a dollar or so for a one-time phone number search and under 15 bucks for more long term access to the |listings|directory|service}. Any directory asking for a substantial fee for very little information retrieved should be avoided.
There are too many good websites available to waste time and money on inaccurate resources, so be certain they are offering the information you need before giving them hard earned money.