Free Reverse Cell Phone Lookup

Free Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Websites - Do They Exist? By David Down

Is
it really possible to run a free reverse cell phone lookup on the
internet? Many of us have become disillusioned and frustrated in the
past with websites which appear to offer free products or services
online but in fact do not. Is this the case with cell phone lookups?

Firstly
let us examine exactly what we mean by a phone number lookup. If you
have in your possession a residential phone number but no idea who the
number belongs to or what address it relates to you can use a "reverse
lookup" service to find out those details. This can obviously be very
useful in situations where you have lost contact with someone but still
have a record of their phone number, or simply wish to verify who owns
the number before mistakenly phoning the wrong number. There are many
places you can perform such residential and business phone lookups
online for free, including toll-free numbers.

However a problem
arises when you need to run a reverse lookup on a cellular phone as the
free directories do not contain any such numbers. Similarly they do not
contain fax numbers as this information is only held by the carriers
and telecommunications companies. Do these records exist, and are they
free?

The good news is there are websites which claim to offer
large numbers of cell phone numbers, but they are not free. These
websites naturally have to pay for access to some of this information,
and go to the considerable trouble of pulling all the various resources
together in one place, and as a result you will be charged a small fee
before you can access the lookup databases. However the fee is a
one-off payment and with some websites you can run as many searches as
you like once you have access, with others they offer a single lookup
for a lower fee. The records they claim to offer include cell owner
details, address history, carrier details, and the phone connection
status. It is also worth noting that the databases offered by each
company differ to some degree, but most include cell phones and often
residential, business, toll-free, even pagers, and these websites say
your searches are guaranteed legal and confidential.

In addition
to reverse lookups there are also similar websites which offer access
to information such as background checks and background reports, people
finder databases, bankruptcies, liens, public records databases
including births, deaths, marriages, divorces and adoptions, sex
offender records, police records, and much more. These sites operate in
the same way, offering access to specific types of information for a
set fee, however it should be noted that you will not receive access to
such information as part of your cell phone lookup site membership.

I
have seen websites claiming to offer free cell lookups, but they always
lead eventually to the paid sites in the end, even allowing people to
search for free and then charging to view the results. It is the sad
truth that the only place where you are likely to find detailed reverse
cell records is within the legitimate paid directories. In conclusion,
the answer is no, free cell phone lookups do not currently exist.
However if you really want to access such records then I believe paying
a small fee is a price worth paying.

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