How to Do a Reverse Phone Check

It's difficult to imagine a life without telephones and cell phones today. Last two decades have seen an explosion of developments in telecommunication. Staying in touch with anybody, anywhere was never so easy.

However, this traceability has a flip side to it. You can be bugged by unknown callers who get hold of your number. Prank calls can be a real nuisance to deal with. Fortunately there are free reverse phone lookup services made available online, that can help you trace the owners of these phone numbers.

The Internet has made our life easier and thanks to certain sites online, you can do your own detective work and easily find out the names of unknown callers from their phone numbers.

The Internet is an ocean of information and you can have the right information if you know where to look for. Google search engine has made it easier for us to locate exactly what we want.

While free reverse cell phone lookup is a myth, reverse phone lookup facility is indeed available for free. Let us see how reverse phone number check works for you.

Telephone directories hold an alphabetical list of landline phone owners in an area with a corresponding list of phone numbers. Reverse phone lookup directories hold data that is classified other way round. It has a database of numbers assigned with names. Reverse phone lookup sites host these databases on their web servers.

These databases are searched for a particular number query and the matching result is displayed on the website. The database has a search engine which does the job of looking for numbers and finding the associated names.

The database also holds information about the location or address of the phone owner. So these sites offer reverse phone lookup with name and address.

Let us see how to find a phone number by name. Using a free reverse phone number directory, made available on websites, is quite simple and straightforward. You can easily locate them using a search engine. Google for sites that offer free reverse phone lookup service.

You will get a number of links to websites that offer this online service. Click on any of the links and the web page will open up in front of you. It will have a search box, where you will have to enter the phone number you are trying to trace.

You will need to enter the country and state code, followed by the actual phone number. There may be separate boxes for each part of the phone number. Once you finish entering, just click on search button provided next to the search box.

Your query will be forwarded to the server and matching name and address, will be displayed on a new page. In case the user of the landline number has chosen not to list his number with a telephone company, only the address will be displayed. It may take quite a lot of time for the address to be displayed as a vast database needs to be searched.

If you are lucky and the number has been listed, you will have the name in a matter of few seconds.

Using this facility, you can trace any landline phone number in the United States of America. Similar services are offered by some sites for European countries. Tracing prank callers was never so easy before.