All you need to use a directory service is a phone number with area code. You will then be able to look up any number in the country, including cell, lanlines, pay, business and residential and even unlisted numbers. You will receive the persons name, address, billing address, carrier, and depending on the service you use you may be able to use the advanced search and find out the juicy details. Like criminal and court records, school and job history, marriage and divorce records, financial history, school and even what kind of car the have a loan on.

Want to find out who your husband or boyfriend has been calling on their cell phone? Reverse search their latest calls. See how honest they are. Of course this works for guys too. At one time we were getting prank calls and hang ups in the middle of the night. The person would call and not say anything. I got their number from my caller ID and called them back. Got their voice mail, no surprise there. Or they would answer and not say anything.

This went on for a few days until I had enough. I joined a search service and ran their number. I researched out their info and printed it out. Next time they called I called them back and said something like, is this John Adams at 3344 west 1^st street? The one that works for the water department? Hey, how is your new Toyota running? I would have loved to see the look on his face. Turns out it was my girlfriends ex boyfriend.

The calls stopped immediately. I did mention if they did not I would report him to the police for phone harassment. This will also work for exposing telemarketers. Ever get repeated automated telemarketing calls? You can get the companies main office phone number and give them a quick call. They always seem surprised when they get a call, like how did you get this number.

Here is a little tip, some services will let you pay a smaller fee to do a one time search, I discovered that the difference you pay to become a yearly or lifetime member is worth the price difference. Once you find out the sort of info you can dig up on someone you will find yourself running searches on friends, family, co-workers and maybe even your employer.

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Do you get annoying prank calls or wrong numbers on you cell phone all the time? Nothing worse that getting prank calls at 2 am or while you are driving in heavy traffic. I used to get these all the time but I found out how to put a stop to them by getting the cell phone callers info from a reverse call search.

Instead of changing your phone number run a reverse cell phone search on the unknown caller and you will get back some pretty personal info on that person. Next print it out and call them back. I usually read back their name address and other personal information that my search provider gave me and tell them to stop calling. In most cases you will never hear from that number again. If they do keep calling you are armed with there info and you can call the authorities on them and file a complaint.

There are a lot of free reverse cell phone directories or at least ones that claim to be but you really have to watch what ones you join, You may be wasting your money. I would stick to the well know providers that have a good reputation, They service is well worth the fee you pay to join and once a member you have access to their other services like, people and classmate search, court records and other useful info. You can really dig up some dirt on another person.

As far as the free searches go, I’ll have to admit I tried most of them. The info you get back is pretty worthless since they use outdated public domain info for their data base. Cell phone numbers are not in the public domain like land line numbers are so it is a lot harder to trace a cell number.

The paid reverse cell phone directories keep their data base current and up to date by purchasing there info from cell phone providers. As soon as someone gets a new number it is entered into the system. We ran a test by buying a new call phone and ran the number. In just a few hours my name address and other info was showing up on the searches.

The best way to start tracing a cell number is by doing a preliminary search to see if some basic info is returned. While almost all cell phones are in the system some of the over the counter pre paid ones are not. Unless the person bought it with a credit card they are really hard to trace since they require no name or any other personal information to buy one.

You also need to watch what sites you join some of them are outright scams made to collect your personal information and money.