Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Results Can Be INACCURATE!

Protect yourself from the following 2 types of Reverse Cell Phone Directories

1. Those that have outdated and inaccurate information
2. Those that ask for your personal information in exchange of the cell phone number you’re looking for

Reverse Cell Phone Directories with outdated and inaccurate information

With outdated information you may get information on the cell number’s previous owner and not that of the current owner!

As you probably already know, in the USA, cell phone numbers are NOT listed on public phonebooks such as the WhitePages. This has been done on purpose to protect the privacy rights of cell phone users. Therefore, there is no publicly available central database that contains subscriber information from different cell phone carriers.

As a consequence, collecting, organizing, managing and updating the constantly changing cell phone subscriber population is a ‘challenge’ to say the least. Therefore unless a particular reverse cell phone lookup service updates their databases on a regular basis, their information quickly gets outdated and inaccurate.

Reverse Cell Phone Lookup TIP # 1:

ALWAYS make sure the reverse cell phone directory you are using is updated frequently. Daily updated databases are the most accurate!

Keep Away from reverse phone directories that ask for your cell number

Don’t become a victim of IDENTITY THEFT

The chances are you have already come across at least one of these. They start off nicely and ask you to enter the number you are searching for. Then they pretend to do a bit of searching and 15 seconds later they say, “Please enter your name and cell phone number to check if it’s in our database”. Do you see what they are doing? These ‘databases’ are collecting your data and after they get your data, they might ultimately end up saying “Sorry, our database does not have the number you are looking for” (but thanks for giving us your number!).

Last year, over 10 million people became victims of identity theft. You don’t want to risk giving your information to fishy sites out there.

Reverse Cell Phone Lookup TIP # 2:

Make sure the reverse phone lookup service you are accessing is a well reputed company. Do they have any one (or more) of the following on their site?

If a particular online merchant (a phone number search service or otherwise) is endorsed by one or more of the above, the chances are you don’t have to worry about doing transactions with them.

Please note that this website is NOT endorsed by any of the above. We are merely displaying a screenshot for your information! That’s why nothing happens when you click on the above image. If a site is endorsed by the above-mentioned, a message will pop up when you click on the above images.

Which reverse cell phone services meet the above criteria?

Not many! In fact they are a rare breed! After reviewing well over dozen reverse lookup services, we found that only a very few reverse cell phone search directories fulfilled those criteria. Even out of them, when various other factors were considered, only two services could be considered outstanding. They are listed below.

The most recommended reverse cell phone lookup service

The reverse cell phone service that outsmarted all other reverse lookup databases is known as Intelius. They are superior to other similar services in the following aspects.

  Accuracy - We tested 5 cell phone numbers whose owners’ details we knew of. We got 100% accurate results for all 5 of them.

  Database size – They have an extensive database with over 20 Billion records in house

  Updating frequency – Daily. That’s as updated as you will find any reverse lookup service

  Company reputation – the list is really long. We’ll list just the most prominent ones below.

• Intelius has been recognized in Inc. Magazine’s INC. 500.
• It has been selected as one of Washington’s Best Workplaces by the Puget Sound Business Journal
• They were recognized as #9 out of 25 medium-sized companies for Puget Sound Business Journal’s 2010 Corporate Citizenship Awards
• Over 1 million people visit Intelius.com each day
• They have processed more than 16 million orders
• They process more than 3000 queries per second
• Intelius gave almost $370,000 in 2009 in Charity
• They were ranked among the top 100 commerce sites on the Internet
• Intelius sas been in business since 2003

  Amount of results – You get MORE information from a reverse lookup compared to some of the other services we tested. Here is part of a sample report from Intelius

  One stop shop – They provide various other reverse lookups so that in case you need more in depth details such as a background investigation, you can get that information also through the same website

• Reverse Phone Verification, Background Check, Property & Area Information, Email Lookup, Date Check, People Search, Email Search, Business People Search, Social Net Search, Cell Phone Caller ID, Identity Protect, Criminal Check, Sex Offender, Neighborhood Watch, Marriage / Divorce Records, Death Records, Expert Assisted Search, Employment Screening, Tenant Screening, Customer Solution, Driving Records, Public Records

That is a record that other reverse cell phone look up services could not even come close to. Intelius is undoubtedly the top service provider we found when it came to reverse cell phone lookup directories.

You can visit the official site of Intelius here

Another decent service is known as Inteligator

Inteligator does not quite have the credentials of Intelius. However, outranked the others considering the criteria we used.

  Accuracy - again we got 100% accurate results for the 5 numbers we tested

  Database size - not quite the 20 billion Intelius had, but Inteligator also claims to have 2 billion records in their database

  Company reputation – nothing compared to Intelius here. That’s because they are a relatively new company where as Intelius has been in business since 2003.

  They also offer a wide variety of services like Reverse Phone Lookups, People Search, Background Check, Criminal Records, Property Records, Email Lookup, Court Records, Marriage/Divorce and Birth Records

  A unique feature about Inteligator is that they offer a subscription service where you could sign up and carryout unlimited searches inside their large database. If you are the kind of person that does frequent reverse lookup searches (reverse cell lookups, reverse address lookups, reverse email lookups etc.), then Inteligator.com might be a better choice for you compared to Intelius

You can visit the official website of Inteligator here

Conclusion

Based on the following factors, Intelius is undoubtedly the best reverse cell phone lookup service that we came across.

1. Size of their database
2. Updating frequency
3. Company reputation
4. Services they offer

In conclusion, if you are looking to do a single reverse cell phone lookup, we recommend you use Intelius.com. However, if you will be doing reverse cell phone searches on a regular basis, we recommend the monthly subscription service at Inteligator.com.

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