10 Easy Steps To Help You Find Reverse Phone Information

Finding out who called from just their phone number is now easier than ever thanks to the Internet. Below, we've listed 10 easy steps to help you find reverse phone information online, giving you direct access to the websites and services that count; saving you time and effort.

We've listed the points in no particular order as many of them (except the last point) will probably not work. There's no harm in trying all of the points, though:

Use Google.com to see if the number is listed in the public directory. To do this, you just need to head to Google and then type "phonebook: xxx-xxx-xxxx" in the search box (where each x is a digit of the phone number). This will search a huge public directory which is full of listed land line numbers only.

Use some other free resources to search for the number. Using the search functions on the likes of MySpace.com or even FaceBook.com to see if the number has been typed into the profiles on those sites has been known to reveal some pretty nice results.

Head to BoardTracker.com and type the number in there. This will search thousands of online forums & message boards to bring back any posts with the number in. If results are returned, then the address and name might be there. More often than not, they're not.

Search for the number on Yahoo! Answers. Yahoo! Answers is a huge hub for people asking many, many questions which means that you can see if anyone else has been affected by the phone number and is asking about it. Sometimes, people with memberships to premium phone lookup services will find the details for you if you're lucky.

Try asking the people at DetectiveForums.com if they have membership to a premium phone lookup service and whether they would lookup the number for you. Especially the more respected members will likely have access to these services and will be able to give you the information as long as you're really polite and nice to them!!

Type the phone number into the search box on WhoCalled.us. This will search their huge database of phone number which people have listed as need to be traced. If any information has been provided, then it will bring it up. This service is especially good for a "commercial" number. I.E cold call sales people who ring thousands of people.

Use the search engines to search directly for the number. The likes of Google, MSN and Yahoo all have major amounts of web sites on their records and you can search for any term in those sites just by typing the phone number into the search box and hitting the search button. Take a look at this tutorial for more information.

Search on Technorati.com for any blogs which have posted about the phone number. This is almost like #7 but it uses Technorati (a blog search engine) to find blog posts containing the phone number. This could work well for anyone pranking people for a laugh.

Check your phonebook / address book!!! So many people start getting real scared or anxious about people acting really friendly on the phone (as if they are your friend, etc). They get worked up so much that they end up spending $15 on a lookup only to find it's someone they knew anyway!

Use a comprehensive reverse phone lookup service at the top of this page. If all else fails, then I'm afraid you're going to have to bite the bullet and purchase the data from a premium service.

Although the cost of these services starts from $15, they are actually very good because the data from them is not only guaranteed for 56 days but it's also 100% legal and discreet, meaning that you don't have to worry about breaking any laws, etc to get the information.