Identifying a Caller

Monday, June 01, 2009

By Hekktor Nasintino

Everyone wants to know who is calling them. Because most people are using cell phones nowadays, they do not display the name information like a traditional landline does. Because of this, it makes it difficult to find out who is calling you. Have you been a victim of a prank call? Execting a call from someone but do not know their name? A reverse telephone number lookup is all that you may need to be successful in your search.

There are free telephone lookup sites all over the internet. They usually will not tell you the address that is associated with the number but will give you very basic information such as where the phone number is located, such as in a city and state, not the specific address. Try to lookup a prepaid phone, you will not be able to do it successfully, you will need the help of your local authorities for this one, or a court order, perhaps both.

It is quite easy to find reverse telephone lookup sites, just type the words or the number into your favorite search engine, you should get results very quickly. Keep in mind some are better than others, and depending on which one you go to, will provide different levels of information. Sometimes the information is not even up to date.

With the free telephone lookup sites, the information is not as up to date as it could be. The reason for this is they do not have the money to update their databases as often because they are not charging for it. So if you use the free databases, you will be stuck with whatever they give you. If you use a paid search, you will get more reliable results. Sometimes it pays to pay for things, especially if you need the details.

Whether you want to use a paid or free reverse telephone lookup is up to you. Both have their advantages, the free one of course being free, and the paid one gives you reliable information and information you can trust more. The cost of a paid search is not much compared to the data that you are recieving.

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