


"This is great. Just minutes after starting Net Detective I had located my long-lost college roommate and had her on the phone. We talked for two hours. (We hadn't talked in 27 years.) I have been telling all my friends and they are amazed."
-Marsha Seiler, Dallas, TX
Got a phone number but don’t know who it is? Maybe you’ve seen strange numbers showing up on your teenager’s cell phone bill. Or maybe you picked up a number to call about an investment - but you suspect a scam. Or maybe you found a mysterious number in your wife or husband’s things. For dozens of reasons, we find ourselves with a telephone number - but no name.
You’re itching to find out who it is. Not just for curiosity’s sake. The safety of your family or the security of your bank account could be at stake. You need a way to discover just whose phone number you have.
When it comes to finding out who’s hiding behind a phone number, the best way I’ve found is online search. Yet, search takes time. And not finding what you want quickly gets very frustrating.
To help, a number of businesses exist to make reverse phone searching quicker and easier. These businesses have already found the best sources for reverse phone searching. They take you directly to the databases that have the information you need. You can find out names, addresses, and much more, starting with just a phone number.
Some of these Reverse Phone Lookup services are free. The better ones cost a little. Quality always does, in my experience.
If, in your case, it’s not that important to get accurate information fast, then give the free services a shot. They’re mostly supported by pay for performance advertising, like Adsense, which doesn’t earn them much. That means the free services rarely have the money to invest either in buying data access or in creating more usable interfaces.
In my case, as a professional, getting quality information quickly is important. I pay the small fee and get reliable information.
But, even if I didn’t write for a living and were just casually looking up phone numbers from time to time, I’d still go with a paid database service. The cost is minimal. Often a small, one-time fee covers one to three years or even longer. If I only looked up a number once or twice a year, it would still be worth it in time saved.