The widespread popularity of cell phones now days have become a great boom to the society. With the increasing use of cell phones, however people are also facing some critical situations along with. A by product of this trend is that people receive calls from numbers that they can’t easily identify. We cannot find cell phone numbers listed in any of the online or offline directories that are available to public.

How to do it?

Free methods

However we have certain options to find out and search for the otherwise unlisted phone numbers. First of all we can use the search engines for our required search. Search engines like Google, yahoo and msn will work. Search engines will be able to find information about the unknown numbers provided we feed the number into the search engine in between double quotation marks.

Secondly, we can use the social networks for searching purpose. Social networks like Orkut, Facebook, MySpace are very beneficial in this type of searches.

Thirdly, we can directly call the number and find out who is on the other side. Just make sure you take the help of a legal advisor before proceeding to this step. You can just call up the number and inquire about his name and location. You can use a public phone booth for this purpose. You can apply a trick here. Just call up the number and address the other person with a name. For example, you can say, ‘hello Nihar ’. And after that obviously the other person will say that he/she in not the required person you need. Then, you can say that Nihar has given me this number to call up and ask the question, ‘may I know your name and from where you are talking. Then the person will tell you his/ her number without a second thought and you will get your desired result.

But if you want to make this process even simpler, you can follow the straight-forward method. You can simply call the required number and then directly ask the person receiving the call that you saw his/her number in the call list and you are curious to know about him/her. The above methods conclude the free ways for conducting a reverse phone search.

Paid service

The fourth method we will discuss is not a free method and will cost you some money. But if you want to know in more details about the other person, then this will be a better option for you. There are a few companies on the web who offers a membership or a service, where you can conduct a self-serve reverse phone lookup on most cell phone numbers or unlisted numbers from a premium record database, which is usually a combination of public records, corresponding phonebook listings and indexed web contents.

The important thing we have to take into account in this case is the matter of guarantee. Not every cell phone numbers will have details, so you should be aware of the policies the companies would have for these types of cases.

However a few of the better companies actually provide their customers with a trial period offer which is free and which displays limited records of numbers which exists in their databases. So you can check the efficiency of the service and thereafter we can decide whether to take the service or not. That’s all about how to perform a reverse cell phone look up on the internet.

Trucaller

Trucaller for the iphone has finally arrived. With the help of trucaller, we can make reverse number look ups in more than 25 countries by entering the telephone number and pressing searches. It has several features which are of great use. We can save that information on to our iphone contact list. We can also view the map of any desired location or we may also get the direction of a particular location by just typing the location name.  Moreover trucaller automatically updates your phonebook contacts with correct address information and notifies you when your friend changes their address. Trucaller also offers an extensive filter which protects us from fraud, spam and even annoying sales persons.

Within seconds, trucaller displays public information such as the address, region and country of the required party. If available, trucaller also displays the pictures or most recent status messages of people who are in the social networking sites.

Number guru

This application offers free unlimited reverse phone look ups. The number guru is the biggest reverse phone number search service. We get to know all the required information about the unknown number right at he time of receiving the call.  We need to simply download the number guru caller id and reverse phone app, open it up and just start searching. The application and searches are 100 percent free. The number guru almost covers 100 percent of landlinesand50 percent of mobile phones.

Mr. number

This reverse look up application is quite easy and reliable to use. It can provide a name for more than 90 percent of US landline numbers and 50 percent of cell phone numbers.  We can also save our results to the contact book of our phone. It can recognize nuisance callers like telemarketers and lets you report spam calls from your cell phone. It’s almost like a caller id for your iphone. If we don’t get the results of our search, the application will not charge anything from us.

Reverse phone by intelius

Intelius is one of the most popular researches for the people searches on the internet. Through this people service, we can do people searches across the nation. It also offers services such as background checks, criminal checks and sex offender searches. Reverse phone app provides the name, age, address and other information for any phone number. It provides a record of all searches and reports for future reference. It can be downloaded for free.

Iprivus caller name look up

This application allows you to get real names, not just the city from international databases. It allows you to easily save information to your contact list and avoid voice mail by knowing who called. This app is not free and comes with different subscriptions.