A Reverse Phone Lookup will show you the name of the person or company who owns the number.
To do a search, you must enter all ten digits of the phone number. The website you use will look for every public record associated with that number, and provide results about each owner.
Depending on the site you use, you can get information from the last 40 years or so.
A reverse phone search can be used when one has received a phone call from an unknown person or company. It may be that you want to verify that they are a reputable person or business. In these circumstances if you can obtain their phone number from your phone records you can use this to check their credentials.
Phone numbers can be looked up in a local phone book. Often, phone books are delivered to residences by the phone company or by other private companies which manufacture them. Phone books can also be found at the public library. The internet offers many resources to look up phone numbers based on a person's name and to look up a person's name based on a phone number (known as a reverse look-up).
There are many websites that allow a person to do a reverse phone lookup. One website is the Yellow Pages as long as the phone number is from a landline it will show up. Another site is Reverse Phone Lookup, that website will do all types of numbers including cell phones.
Well, reverse phone numbers can be used to find out additional information about the caller. Information can include address, phone number, name, and other personal details.
When you're using a reverse cell phone lookup company, they'll usually ask you for the phone number. They somehow take the phone number and find a connection to a person whether it be a landline or cellphone. It is usually a small fee.
A reverse phone directory will enable you to look up phone numbers to find the owner's name, address, and more detailed information about the owner. You can look up cell phone numbers, residential and business phone numbers, 800 numbers, private and even unlisted phone numbers.
There are a few that do offer reverse cell phone look up. Most will only tell you where the call came from and who the carrier is. However this is enough to go to the phone company or police with to get the person stopped.
A very good question, except you could equally ask why the numbers are arranged in reverse order on a phone.
A reverse phone search is the opposite to a normal search, where you would have the name and/or address of a person which would find you their number. A reverse search, you would have the number and be able to find out who the person was.
If the call is from a commercial organisation then a simple web search should solve the problem. Many phone directory websites offer reverse look up for numbers that are listed in that directory.
There are free "reverse directory" websites for many countries, and also reverse look-up sites that charge money. However, many numbers, most especially mobile phone numbers, are not listed at all in any public directory.
There is no such thing as a free cell phone directory right now