A new service which some companies are offering is called, reverse phone directory. If a stranger has either tried to contact you either with a phone call or a SMS message then it means that with this service you can find out more information about this number, one of the main reasons for this is that you think why they phoned you especially if they did not leave a message. The service could either be for a land line or cell phone number.

However with a cell phone number it may cost a slightly higher fee to get the number as cell phone information is often not public. Most of the time these numbers are not from another person but from telemarketers and even scam artists by using the information you can find out who this number is from and if it is a telemarketer find out whether they are genuine or not to avoid this risk of being scammed.

An example of a situation where a reverse phone lookup will be useful is if during your day you receive a phone call from a “genuine” Microsoft saying that they have received a report from your ISP (internet service provider) that there is a serious virus problem on your current home computer. This was a scam which was used a few years ago and people were told to access a website and subscribe to it for a fee of ?185. Numerous people signed up too this and a way too have found out whether it was genuine or not was by using a reverse phone lookup and there would be a 99% chance of the number being there and the user would be able to see that this phone call was not genuine and stopped them being scammed.

The users with a reverse phone lookup receive many details based off that current number. One detail is that they receive the owner’s full name and location so that the user can work out whether it was a telemarketers call as the name could be of a company not actually there name. In addition to this it also finds their email and any other important background information so that the user can work out who has called them. Another use for reverse phone lookup is if your partner or spouse has been receiving unknown phone calls then with the reverse phone lookup you can look up their number and find out who they have actually been talking too.

Most companies can find the information about a phone number very quickly and the results are almost instantaneous. You can use this service on either your desktop computer or your mobile phone so the service can almost always be accessed as long as there is an internet connection. Not all of the companies charges, some companies can still find the information which you want for free meaning that you can save money but still receive the same information. You can access the service on your mobile using many apps which are both available on the apple store and the android marketplace.