“What You MUST Know
Before
Conducting A Reverse Phone Lookup...”
Published: March 15th, 2008
If you’ve discovered a strange phone number
on your cell phone, phone bill, or Called I.D. and would like to find out who
owns it, the easiest way to do it is by using a Reverse Phone Lookup Directory. These
services make it easy to track down the name and address of almost anyone in
no time, with almost zero effort on your part.
You see, the name and address behind every phone
number is stored on databases now easily accessible through the internet…
and it’s perfectly legal to access this information.
The only difficult
part to getting this information is finding a reputable reverse phone
directory.
I say "reputable" because sadly there
really are just few reverse phone lookup directories on the internet that actually contain complete and
accurate information. Many of the "others" will only give you
information such as the location of the area code or in some cases... the wrong information all together.
Not good!
How do we know? Here at Consumer Solutions we make it our
mission to protect you, the consumer, from wasting your hard-earned money on
products and services that just don’t deliver. We've gone to great
lengths to put these services to the test... and determine once and for all
which of these programs provide the most complete and accurate results…
The way we evaluate each service is simple: We test, test,
than test some more. After rigorously testing every reverse phone service we
could get our hands on (39 in all), We looked up 100 commercial, residential,
cell, and unlisted phone numbers on each (that’s 400 numbers total).
This was the only way we could be sure were bringing you the
absolute best on the entire internet. (It's a bold statement, but if you knew
full depth of our research you'd understand. We don't reveal all our methods
due to the fact that some reverse phone service may actually tweak their
systems just to pass our test.)
Not surprisingly, we found that most of the services we
tested simply did not provide us with the information that they claimed they
would.
The majority of the services gave us little more than the
name itself… with some providing only a last name and a list of “possible”
first names. These names were often paired with an address that was outdated
or incorrect, if that information came up at all.
With claims of being able to provide us with full name,
address or company of the individual we looked up, we were sad to see that in
most cases after all was said and done, we could have found the same
information in the local phone book!
Although most of the services we reviewed fell short of our
expectations, we did manage to find a few programs that truly stood out from
the crowd. These gave us nearly all the information we were looking for...
the full correct name and address of almost all individuals tested on.
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