Have you ever had your phone start ringing, only to pull it out and see a number that you’ve never seen before? It happens to everyone at some point. Its incredibly frustrating and nerve-wracking at times – Could it be someone calling back about the job you interviewed for? Maybe its your best buddy calling from a different phone because he dropped his in the fish tank last night. What if it’s that crazy girl that you accidentally gave your real number to last week? Don’t let the fear take over, my friend! Let it go to voicemail. Oh wait, they didn’t leave a message? No problem. Simply start up the internet browser on your beloved smartphone or get to a computer, and convenience yourself with a reverse phone directory before you call that number back.
The process is incredibly easy. Just find the site you want to use and type the number in. There are many different companies who boast the ability to do a reverse phone lookup. They include USSearch, phonebooks.com, whitepages.com, anywho.com, myreversephonedetective.com, and many, many others. Most of them charge a fee, which ranges from $1.00 to upwards of $25, depending on how much information you want to know about the phone number you’re looking up. If you’re really curious, you can often pay for a minimal background check along with the lookup, but its going to cost you something extra. This way, you can at least check to see if Miss Crazy really is insane or has a history of stalking; if so, simply block the number or save her in your phone as “Crazy girl from taco shop – do not answer” so you remember that a week from now; if not, it might be safe enough to call her back.
The easiest-to-use company that has a free reverse phone lookup function is yellowbook.com. It is reliable, simple, and very accurate. All you have to do is go to their homepage, click on the arrow next to the “reverse lookup” button at top of the page, enter the number you’re curious about, and press go. In just a few moments, your results will appear! Yellowbook.com will identify who has the number, as long as it is not a cell phone number. If you want a cell phone number looked up, you will have to pay for the service, but the process is pretty much the same.
Once you’ve had a chance to reverse lookup the number, you can call it back with confidence. “Hey, bro! Yeah…fish tank again? Man, we gotta get you an otterbox! No dude…two words: military phone – it can survive a bomb, it can survive a party!”, or “Why yes, Mr. Billingsworth, I would definitely be interested in that job, and I can start as soon as Monday,” you can say, without any apprehension that it might be Miss Crazy from a few nights ago. This service is truly invaluable and is well worth the money to verify the source of the phone call.
