December 13th, 2008
A lot of us have become disappointed and upset previously with websites which claim to give free products and services on the Internet but the truth is they don’t do this. Is this the way that all cell phone lookups work?
We should examine exactly what we mean when we say a phone number lookup. If you don’t know who a phone number belongs to, you may ask a “reverse lookup” service to provide that information. This is clearly of use in situations where you have a record of a long-lost contact’s telephone number, or when you just want to check who owns a number to avoid calling the wrong number in error. The web offers several portals to find residential and business information, including cell phone lookups, at no cost.
The problem happens when you try to do a reverse lookup from a cell phone, the free directories will not contain the numbers. Likewise, information about fax numbers are not contained because such information is retained solely by carriers and telecommunication companies. Do these records actually exist and are they free?
There are sites that will offer an amazing amount of cell phone numbers, just be aware that they won’t come cheap. These websites generally have to pay for getting some of this information, and go to the number of trouble of pulling all the various resources together in one place, and as a result you will be charged a small amount before you can see the lookup databases. However the amount charged is a one-off payment and with some websites you can access as many searches as you like once you get the permission to work on it, with others they charge you a single lookup for a lower fee. The information they promise to give you include who owns the cell phone, where the person lives, the phone carrier, and connection status. It is also worth knowing that the databases given by each company differ to some extent, but most of them include cell phones and many times residential, business, toll free, even pages and these websites claim that your searches are guaranteed legal and confidential.
There are many websites out there that offer reverse lookups but there are others that you can also use to get background information on such as people finders, cell phone number lookup, bankruptcies, public record, sex offenders and so on, most of these websites do offer free cell phone lookups as well. These sites works in the same way, giving access to particular types of information for a set amount, however it should be taken into consideration that you will not get access to such information as part of your cell phone lookup site membership.
I have seen websites that offer free cell phone lookups, but they invariably lead eventually to paid sites at the end, even allowing people where they can search for free but will not show the results unless you pay. It is sad but true that the only place where you can find detailed reverse cell records is withing the legitimate paid directories. Finally, there are no free cell phone lookups in existance. Paying a small fee to gain access to such wanted records is a worthy bargain.