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What is Reverse Phone Lookup

You get an anonymous phone call, probably when you are bathing or having a relaxed time gardening to forget about all official and personal attachments that hooks you otherwise, now you can’t just let it go and you need to know whether it is a potential buyer or someone giving you a lead to a long waited internship – at any case you need to know who is that person that was interested in speaking to you but left no message. So now you know the meaning of reverse phone number lookup, the service that comes in assistance in this situation. Basically, it lets you know the person’s name, possibly address, if not a general location, phone service provider, any earlier complaints on the number.

How to do it

There are many paid services that charge between $0.6 and $14.95 to do this and that is for just a single search. Meanwhile there are many free services available online as well. Perhaps, the easiest of all is Google Phone book, when we type the phone number in proper format with hyphens (e.g., 555-525-1787), the result shows the phone owner’s name, street address and a thumbnail map showing the exact location. However this method is limited to some, not all, unlisted numbers. It is when we need to look beyond the usual saviour Google; the Top 3 of the specialized services when they claim it is possible to search for both landlines and cell phones, its relatively difficult and expensive to track a mobile information rather than a landline. In case of a positive match, we will get to see the first and last name of the owner, his address, where the number was registered, a map of his location and more. Occasionally, when we are unable to establish a positive match, the best information we may get are his general location, last connected network, his phone service provider, and call complaints lodged already.

Privacy vs. Safety requirement

Many of these service also include an option to exclude them from their listings, you can’t probe into one’s privacy unless need be superficial; more importantly it’s his right to have his private life not disturbed by unknowns and blacklist themselves. Meanwhile it is also important to protect any terrorists or criminal elements from being benefitted for a ploy. Further to this privacy concern, some of these services ask the users to login using their Facebook account, thus the Facebook coupling could help in tracking necessary information when needed and gives genuineness to the registered users. it’s amazing that how Facebook could be used in a completely new scenario with absolutely no relation to its purpose. We could foresee mobile apps get developed for this purpose when the need scenarios rise. In the growing age of internet, where unimaginable things become reality so ahead of time, we could see this service expand its wings and turn out into an angel or beast, that we will wait and learn!