Tuesday, May 26, 2009

international reverse phone look up

Now reverse look up of phone number is getting popular. If an unknown number is causing you a bit of grief, your first thought might be to find out who is on the other end of the line.

Unfortunately the white pages phone directories, as they are printed or made available online for free through paid advertising, do not give you access to this type of information. The free directories work pretty well if you need to trace a standard residential number, but if the number is unlisted your search will turn up empty. You can search by name, just enter the first name or first name initial, the last name or last name initial, the city or zip code, and the state.

The database includes both American and Canadian residential and business phone numbers and addresses that are listed in the public directory for landline phones. Who knows, the caller might be a neighbor or someone just a few blocks away from your place and if you and the authorities are aware of it, you will get the necessary protection. This is not as common as it once was, because this takes far more time than our modern means of communication.

Because it takes so much work, no one is able to offer this service for free. I hope I've shown that online residential phone number search programs will be easier to use than the normal paper phone directory, that they are just as trustworthy and might even provide more information than the local directory.

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