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Although there are many services online that
can provide you with access to detailed
telephone databases to assist you with
conducting reverse cell phone lookup
searches, these services are rarely free. To
get the information you’re after, you will
normally end up paying a fee per search or a
one-time fee to access databases and tools.
There is, however, an insider trick to
conducting your own free reverse cell phone
lookup searches. Grab your pen and paper and
follow along with me using the number you
need to trace as we walk through this
exercise.
If you’re like most citizens of this great
planet, you probably visit Google, Yahoo or
some other search engine on a daily basis
(if not daily, at least several times per
week). These search engines roam the
Internet constantly indexing new websites
and web pages into their vast databases. You
can harness the power of Google’s search
database to conduct your own free reverse
cell phone number search.
Everyday, people all over the Internet
unknowingly make their unlisted phone
numbers and cell phone numbers publicly
available over the Internet. How do they do
this? Maybe they lost a dog or they’re
trying to sell a car and they take out a
classified ad in their local newspaper. Most
newspapers nowadays publish their entire
paper, including the classified section, on
their websites. If the person buying the ad
put their cell phone or unlisted phone
number in the ad, there is a high
probability that phone number is now
available to search.
In addition to newspaper classifieds, people
also use their cell phone numbers when they
register on websites, participate in message
boards and many other online endeavors. Each
time they put their number down, a search
engine spider is going to find it!
How does this help you and your free reverse
cell phone search? Take the phone number
you’re searching for and input it into the
search box on your favorite search engine.
Remember to try the different variations
people use for phone numbers. For example,
some people write their phone number in a
format like 555-555-5555 while others will
put it down as 555.555.5555. There are many,
and I do mean many, ways people will format
their phone numbers.
Try these different variations into the
search engine. Try it with and without
quotation marks as this will sometimes help
you get better search results. In our tests,
this strategy works about 40-50 percent of
the time, although it often takes quite a
bit of time to consider all of the
variations a person may put their phone
number down in.
Once you get a hit on the number, your next
step is to investigate the website you found
it on to see if it offers any clues to the
cell phone number owner’s identity.
Sometimes all you will find is the actual
number listed and you’re back to where you
started. Other times you’ll get only a first
name and no last name.
Sometimes you hit the jackpot and get the
full name, address and more of the owner.
Like I mentioned earlier, it can take hours
to get to this point. If you don’t have
hours to invest in conducting your own free
reverse cell phone lookup, I suggest
considering one of the other services
available to make your search faster. |
