April 06, 2010
Do you need to find out who owns a phone number? No sweat. All you have to do is learn how to perform a free telephone lookup online. Read on to learn how.
Free telephone lookup services, do they exist? Many people have a long list of phone numbers they’d love to lookup just to see who owns them. Either you want to track down a prank caller and see if it’s a friend or foe or simply find out who your children are text messaging at all hours of the night. It’s easy to see why people want to know more about the telephone numbers that are anonymously finding their way into their lives, and thankfully there’s an easy way to discover who’s calling using nothing more than the internet. Read on to learn how to perform your search.
The first thing you’ll want to do is take the cellular phone or land line caller ID that you have and find the number you want to learn more about. Then write down or copy the number onto a piece of paper. Make sure you use the exact number and copy down the area code as well. You’ll want a 10 digit phone number in the format of (555)-555-5555
Now that you’ve got your phone number all ready you’ll want to quickly double check it for any transcription mistakes. Make sure you didn’t write it down incorrectly. Now we’ll want to find out which website to use to trace the phone number. There are many paid and free telephone lookup sites so we’ll want to choose one carefully. Unfortunately there are few reliable free reverse lookup sites but you can still get a good preview search that will give you some information. Using your favorite search engine you can find a good reliable site to use, Phone Snoop is just one of the many available.
With the website open there should be a clear place to enter in the phone number and start searching for results. Enter in the phone number exactly how you copied it down earlier in the first step and hit “Submit” or “Next.” This should take a few seconds and then give you a preview of the results. In many cases you’ll get a Google map preview that shows the area and location of where the owner of the number resides. From there you should see a button or place to continue on to retrieve the actual report including their name, address and any other available information like age or criminal history.