WARNING: To All People Finders!
March 10, 2008 by Steven
photo credit: Thomas Claveirole
If, recently, you’ve been getting “crank calls” (not the ones from politicians . . . the other kind . . . you know, the “heavy breathers”!), or let’s say you found a cell phone number on your caller i.d. that you just don’t recognize . . . then you probably want to join one of America’s newest breed of people finders! So, let’s just see if we can just get you in the mood to trace someone’s identity from their cell phone number!
First of all, as long as you got the area code and the seven digit phone number, you should be able to locate the owner of any telephone . . . if you know where to look. If you don’t have, or don’t know how to get their number in the first place, you might want to watch this related video — it shows you 5 other things you probably never knew you could do with any cell phone! After the video, we’ll pick up where we left off at, with tracing someone’s identity from their cell phone number.
Tracing The Phone Number
Nice video, huh? Anyway, back to us . . . and, we were tracing, tracing, tracing someone’s identity from their cell phone number.
OK, your very first stop should be a “reverse lookup phone” service. Plenty of these companies are on the www. If you’ll look to the upper right-hand corner of this page, you’ll find one that I prefer, and it works perfectly well for this purpose.
At the site, you’ll enter the entire number, including the area code, and hit “Search.” If the number connects to a published land line, you should get the information you need, including the legal name of the owner and her/ his current address. Even if the number is unpublished, you can still trace it through Intelius.com.
If you’re lucky enough to get results, your search may stop there. You may, however, need to approach this another way.
90% of those who use the above services will find who they’re looking for right away, but if, for whatever reason you run into a snag is where the number belongs to a cell phone (could happen).
Because there is no central database of cell phone numbers that’s free of charge, what are (falsely) advertised as absolutely free reverse phone lookup services cannot return information on those numbers. In addition, you might not be able to get info on landline numbers that are either unlisted or non-published. I mention that only because Intelius has probably the largest database (more than 2 billion entries) and is able to find upwards of 90% of non-published phone numbers. So, don’t bother trying multiple reverse+phone+lookup" rel="nofollow">reverse phone lookup directories in order to find the owner of a phone number, either. Most use the same databases, so if you don’t score results at one then you won’t fare any better at another site.
Finding the Phone’s Owner
Instead, you may have to use a paid site. For a reasonable fee, you can access more cell trace search options to get the information you need to find someone’s number. Some reverse phone databases will provide accurate, up-to-date information using both land line and cell phone searches.
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Other exclusive databases include even broader coverage of the entire US with superior results than you will find on most other websites. They also provide free search assistance and access to their expanded people search databases. So, chances are actually very good that, one way or another, you can find the people you’re looking for, using these methods. Happy Hunting!
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