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14 Nov 2009

Cellular Phone Reverse Search is Available to Anyone

By Duncan Millows

You need to figure out who owns a certain cell phone number. Perhaps someone is frustrating you with prank calls. Or, perhaps you came across this number in the cell phone contact list of your spouse. Perhaps you just stumbled upon a random number in a drawer. You could want to figure this out for numerous reasons. Sadly, it's a lot more difficult to perform a reverse lookup for cell phone numbers than landline numbers? What's the reason? To protect people's privacy, cell phone numbers aren't provided in phone books.

Think for a minute what it would be like for telemarketers to be calling your cell phone several times daily trying to get you to buy something. This would certainly occur if cell phone numbers were stored in a public database. In the big scheme of things, maintaining the privacy of these numbers is no doubt a good thing.

But we need to get back to our task. How are you going to obtain data about the cell phone number's owner if that data is not available? You could attempt to look for the number by typing it into a search engine like Google and see if you get any hits. That probably won't work though because most individuals do not put their numbers out on the internet so that they can be picked up by search engines. You can decide to call up the number yourself and see who answers. You could pretend that you are a different person and that you are trying to collect information for certain records. But that is not a good idea. To start with, the owner of the cell phone number will be alerted. Second, it is probably illegal to pretend you are a different person.

So, is there an effective, safe, legal and ideally free method to lookup somebody's cell phone number? Lucky, the problem can be solved! Cell phone numbers are still provided in the internal databases of phone businesses, even though they aren't provided in public records or phone books. Naturally, you'll have to have someone else search these databases. Some companies buy access to databases like this from different cell phone companies and put the results together in one large database that has current information on the majority of cell phone numbers in America. It's simple to use this database to do a cell phone number lookup to figure out who owns the number in question. Although access to databases like these isn't always free (since phone companies charge a fee to get this information due to privacy reasons), there is typically a small annual fee, and you can perform an unlimited amount of searches.

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