Reverse Cell Directory – Who Owns That Cell Phone?

What You Can Find Using A Reverse Cell Directory

People have a lot of ideas about cell phones and cell phone numbers. Many individuals often think that their cell phone number is a secret. Since it’s not listed in a phone directory and isn’t available through telephone information services, it’s obvious that it’s a secret.

If they call from one cell phone to another, no one will know who is calling whom. Obviously, they’ve not be watching episodes of Law and Order. The ability to trace numbers and their owners is important to catching criminals on television – and in real life. Individuals have access to some of this information and once you know how to find it, it’s relatively easy to do. It is, however, not free.

Go onto any search engine and search for “reverse lookups” or “reverse telephone directory”. The search engine will return more than enough URL’s. This is where you must understand what the reverse lookup process does.

When you enter a telephone number and area code, 555-555-5555 for example, there is a search of available public databases to match that phone number to an owner and return a name and address. If the phone is a land line, the service is usually free and you will be given the name and address, as long as it is in the data base.

With a cell phone, on the other hand, names and addresses of owners are not in these public data bases. This information does exist in data bases than can be accessed, but only at a price. Doing the initial look up on a number will usually return only the carrier name and location – Verizon/Cook County, Illinois, for example. You know then, that this is definitely a cell phone, but you didn’t get the information you were probably looking for.

The web site will then give you the “opportunity” to obtain more information, which is probably the information you wanted in the first place – phone owner, address, members of household and so forth.
The amount that the web site charges is intended to cover the charges that they incur when they access these private databases.

Cell phone reverse look ups are possible. In order to get to the name and location of the cell phone owner, however, it’s a two step process and is not free, no matter what the teaser copy about the URL says, the only free information available concerning a cell phone is the carrier and the location of service.

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