There are various situations in which you have a telephone number before you and have no idea who it is at the other end. Everyone gets these types of phone calls once in a while. Or perhaps even prank phone calls. It happens to everybody at one time or another. We just have a telephone number we just need to figure out who they belong to.

This is where we call upon the services of a reverse phone lookup service

In a worse scenario we want to track down a person who’s making prank calls to us either way you can effectively track down these people, whether they are calling from a cell phone or a home phone, with the help of a cell phone # reverse lookup service which you’ll find online.

Another example of how the reverse phone lookup can be an effective tool is people who are concerned that their spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend may be cheating. In these instances quite often the person they are cheating with will call and when you answer the phone they hang up. Of course you can look at the caller ID to see the phone number but that doesn’t tell you who owns the phone number or where they live.

Until recently this sort of information was only available to law enforcement agencies. They used to this sort of online tool to track down crime suspects as part of investigations but now for a small fee usually around 30 or $40 for a year you have unlimited access to their database.

There are free tools you can use like Bigfoot.com the only problem with these free reverse number lookup services is because they are free their databases are very old and updated infrequently. In fact I have found the databases for these free reverse lookup tools so old sometimes I input a cell phone number and it spits back the owner of that mobile phone a year ago and since then that phone # has been assigned to a new mobile phone owner. When it comes to reverse phone lookup tools online the saying you get what you pay for is definitely true.

In addition to that these free tools will not give you access to information of private or restricted phone numbers or phone numbers that are unlisted.

But whether or not it is a cell phone number or a home number you want to find out who the owner of that number is it’s always best to use a reverse phone number lookup tool that has the largest database and the most recent up-to-date database of cell phone and home phone numbers.

There are two reverse phone lookup tools that are top notch. One of them is called phone number scan which will find out the owner of any cell phone landline or even unlisted phones. The results include the name and address the cell phone carrier if it is a cell phone as well as satellite imagery of the person’s location. The other one is called reverse phone check which specializes more on cell phone numbers. I have yet to enter somebody cell number that didn’t come back with the right results.

If you know it is a cell phone number you want to look up then use the reverse-phone-check service. If it’s a land line or you are not sure then phone-number-scan is the way to go.