Occasionally, a time will arise in our lives in which we need to find out who is the owner of a certain telephone number. For example, someone may keep calling you without leaving a message and you want to find out who it is.<\/p>\n
Or maybe someone is prank calling you and you want them to stop. Perhaps a telemarketer won’t stop calling despite your pleas to be left alone. Or maybe you suspect your husband and wife is cheating and you see a
\nstrange number on his or her cell phone.<\/p>\n
Whatever your reason may be, you will most likely end up using a reverse phone number lookup service<\/strong>. These paid services can research any telephone number and provide you with a full phone report including the owner’s name, address, connection status, type of phone line, and other details.<\/p>\n But before you spend money on these services let me tell you about a free method for looking up phone numbers. Just go to Google, Yahoo, or MSN, enter the telephone number, and click “search”.<\/p>\n You may have to experiment a bit to get the right results. Try entering the number both in quotes and out of quotes, and try different number formats including:<\/p>\n 777-777-7777<\/p>\n 7777777777<\/p>\n (777)777-7777<\/p>\n While this method is free, it is not the most reliable. You have to hope that the owner posted his or her number somewhere on a website, forum, or blog such as MySpace. Also, keep in mind that the results are not guaranteed and could be outdated or outright incorrect.<\/p>\n Of course, it can’t hurt to try since it’s not costing you anything.<\/p>\n But if you strike out with the search engine method, your best bet is a reverse phone number lookup service. While they aren’t free, the cost is pretty fair for the amount of information provided and the time saved.<\/p>\n It would cost hundreds of dollars to pay a private investigator to collect all of the information in a typical phone report, but online services can offer you the same detailed information for around $14 per number.<\/p>\n Also, some services will let you pay a one-time fee (usually around $39-59) for the right to run as many phone number searches as you want.<\/p>\n Why do they charge for the lookup service? Well first of all that’s their business. If you were able to provide such a valuable service would you just give it away?<\/p>\n Also, the lookup services themselves are charged for each search they run. This is because their searches involve submitting a query to the databases of various telephone companies and cell phone carriers.<\/p>\n The carriers charge the lookup service a fee each time the need to access the database for a search, so the lookup service has to pass along the cost to you. If they didn’t they’d quickly find themselves out of business.<\/p>\n For this reason, there is no such thing as a free reverse phone number lookup service. They just don’t exist. And if you see a lookup service promising “free<\/em>” results, use caution. They are either using deceptive marketing to lure you in or they are teasing you with a free search in hopes that you’ll pay for another of their services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Occasionally, a time will arise in our lives in which we need to find out who is the owner of a certain telephone number. For example, someone may keep calling you without leaving a message and you want to find out who it is. Or maybe someone is prank calling you and you want them to stop. Perhaps a telemarketer won’t stop calling despite your pleas to be left alone. Or maybe you suspect your husband and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,22,24,23],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reverse-phone-tips","tag-800-lookup","tag-calls","tag-lookup-anywho","tag-search-free"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t