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“What You MUST Know Before Conducting A Reverse Phone Lookup...”

If you’ve discovered a strange phone number on your (or someone elses) home phone, cell phone, phone bill, or Called ID 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 very quickly with very little effort.

The name and address associated with every phone number is stored in a database that is recently accessible over the internet. It is perfectly legal to access this public information.

The only difficult part about getting this information is finding a reputable reverse phone directory that provides accurate information at a reasonable cost.

I say "reputable" because, as you might expect, there are only a few reverse phone lookup directories on the internet that contain the most complete and accurate information. None of the directories that we reviewed were perfect. Many of the "others" will only provide limited information or in many cases inaccurate information. Not very useful!

How do we know? Here at Phone Lookup Consumer Guide 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 done our very best to put these services to the test and determine which of these services provide the most the most complete and accurate information.

How We Evaluated Each Service

The way we evaluate each service is simple: We input a large sample of numbers and evaluate the results. After rigorously testing every reverse phone service we could get our hands on (we found more than 30 services available), we ran the sample numbers (500 total numbers) which included commercial, residential, cell, and unlisted phone numbers through each service and evaluated the results.

This was the only way to be sure to find the best service available on the internet.

What We Discovered

Not surprisingly, we found that most of the services we tested simply did not provide us with the information that they claimed they would or we expected to get.

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 These names were often paired with an address that was outdated or incorrect, if that information came up at all.

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. As we already mentioned, don't expect any of these services to be accurate 100% of the time. That is never going to happen. However, the top services are accurate and provide good (and hard to find) information most of the time.