Why others can find me by my phone number - Reverse phone number lookup

Did you always receive some unwanted phone calls at home? It seems the callers know your name, phone number, and probably your address, but you completely don't know who they are. How did they get this information?

They got it from the public phone directory, or run a reverse phone number lookup to get it by entering your phone number. You can try this by yourself. You can go to an online phone directory, enter any phone number and try to see if you can find the owner's information. You may find out that sometimes you can get it, but sometimes you can not. Do you know what the reason is?

The reason is, 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, it is very likely you can't get it for free. Why?

Because, in most cases the home phone owner's information is public information. When you sign up for a home phone service, normally you will be asked if you would like to pay extra money to remove your name and other private information from the public directory. People's first response is always "no", in order to save money. Therefore, your name is put into the public list, and others can search it for free. 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. But even if you have registered your phone number, it is still public information, and people can still find it out easily, though they are not allowed to call you.

If you sign up for a cell phone, your information is not public information and the cell phone carrier will not release it to the public directory. This doesn't mean others can't find it. They still can, if they want to pay. Your cell phone company may provide your information to some phone number search companies, which provide phone number search service to the public, of cause not for free. If someone get your phone number and want to find out your information, they can log into these reverse phone number search companies' websites, 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 look up.