What is Reverse Phone Lookup and Where It Is Used

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A reverse phone lookup directory consists  of numbers, which can be looked up by providing the phone number. Reverse telephone directories are used by law enforcement and other emergency services in order to determine the origin of any request for assistance. These systems include both publicly accessible (listed) and private (unlisted) services. As such, these directories are restricted to internal use only. Publicly accessible reverse telephone directories are provided as part of the standard directory services from the telecommunications carrier in some countries.

All the phone numbers provided by the mobile company are listed in a public directory. You can always make the phone number erased from that public list but you have to pay for this. So most of the people say NO to reduce the cost and the phone number exists in the phone directory which is public and consist the information about the phone number owner. Many companies like different kinds of call centers who make call to the people to know about different offers buy those numbers and extract the personal information about the phone users. If you want to stop these types of calls, you can subscribe your number to donotcall.gov .Then no one will call you and it is protected by law.

With the increase in technology there is also a large scenario of the misuse of this technology. We know everything has its good and bad side. Considering the bad side one need to take the advantage of the facility. Due to this misuse of technology now people are very careful about their personal details and always try to keep this information in a secure hand so that it does not get misused. With the technology exposure of reverse phone look up, people are now more conscious about the personal information. Reverse phone technology is not only limited in cell phone; it is also applicable in looking up the land line telephones also. Due to the increasing number of cell phone number now a day it is not possible to track down all the information of the personal in a white paper. It is a time consuming job to search the information from a hardcopy and this also frustrates the user. It is known to us that some basic information can be accessed through yahoo or Google search.

On the internet there are many sites through which we can search the phone number. A reverse phone number look up means by typing a number in the data base it will generate the address and other information related to this. It just does the opposite thing because in this case the process is reversed cause we are generating and gathering the address and name with the phone number. That is why it is named as reverse phone look up. A reverse phone look up can be done in both land lines and in mobile phones. There are also many options and opportunities to look up the phone number by using the online facilities. To choose those facilities some points needed to be in mind. Like which database is massive. Some online database has only some million data but in some database there are billions of datas.So,it is wise to select the massive data base which makes the possibility of the getting the desired data more. Also some database has outdated data so choosing before the site it should be taken care that whether the datas are the latest one and whether the database is having more information.

At some paid websites, they have links to many different databases for phone lookups. The site includes everything from area decoders to pay phone directories. Yahoo also has a reverse data base, also Google has such kind of reverse data base such as Bing. Try typing a business phone number such as (818) 704-9925 in the Google search box. What shows, is the name of the company, it’s address, a map of its location and all the websites which list that phone number. The same works for residential phone numbers if it’s not an unpublished number. If the number is unpublished, it still may show if it has ever been used on a website or in an online ads

In this days this is not a difficult task  to get information by using a cell phone number. Cause there are lots of reverse phone lookup opportunities. There is a facility named Reverse Cell phone look up by netgem,which is a free widget to look up reverse phone look up. Reverse telephone detective is another facility which also gives information by inserting a phone number by searching in its data base also it has a fee video tutorials through which one can get a guided guide line to how to get information through reverse look up. Apple has a reverse phone number lookup for called uGuX. uGuX will search multiple databases to find information on a number.The information includes the name of the phone number owner and his or her database.This program is useful for commercial use because in those purpose this is enough to get the name and the address. Recently a white page search is added to the application which will redirect to a paying website if the data does not exist in its own database. iPhone also has an application tool, which will search for reverse cell phone numbers. It will search over 1 million users bringing back the name, and address of the owners along with background information.

There are also some paid websites which can give you the reverse phone look up information which are not published in the internet everyone such kind of paid site which is very useful is PhoneDetective.This is not a database. but rather a group of seasoned private investigators who specialize in tracing unlisted telephone numbers. So when you do a reverse phone number trace, first see what you can find online for free and if you come up empty then hire a professional. The fee is reasonable in most of the cases.

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