Did you ever receive some advertisement phone calls from some unknown persons? It seems the callers know your name, phone number, and probably your address, but you know nothing about them. How did they get this information ?

They got it from the public phone directory , or run a reverse number look up to get it by entering your phone number. You can try this by yourself . Go to an online phone number search website , enter a phone number and try to see if you can find the owner's information . It is possible that sometimes you can find, but sometimes you can't. Do you know what the reason is ?

Because if the number belongs to a home phone , you may be able to get it for free instantly . But if the number belongs to a cell phone , probably you can't find it for free. Why?

Because, in most cases the home phone owner's information is public information . When you are registering for a home phone, you have an option to pay some fee to remove your name from the public directory. People's first response is always "no" , just to save cost. Therefore , your private information, such as phone number, address, is listed in public directory, and other people can search it easily. Some advertisers may get your information and call you, trying to sell something to you . It is quite annoying . If you don't want to receive this kind of phone calls, you can go to www.donotcall.gov to register your phone number. After 31 days, if you still receive this kind of call, you can go to the same website to file a complaint. Even if you already registered, it is still public information , and people can still find it out easily, though they are not allowed to call you.

When you register for a cell phone service, the cell phone company will not list your information to the public. This doesn't mean others can't find it. They still can, if they want to pay. The cell phone company may release your information to its partners, such as a phone number search company, which provide phone number search service to the public, of cause not for free, or not totally free. If someone want to get your information by your phone number, he goes to the phone number search company's website, pay a certain fee, and then enter your phone number and get your information. But they may still get some information for free, such as the city a cell phone is registered in .

Do you want to try it? Click here to run a reverse cell phone number lookup .

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