Posts Tagged ‘mobile phone lookup’

Why A Free Mobile Phone Number Search is a Scam

Can you really get a free mobile phone number search or are those claims just a scam? In researching materials for this article, I conducted an investigation into these claims to see if I could prove once and for all what free resources were available for reverse cell phone look ups.  The results were quite surprising.

I started my investigation with Google, the dominating force behind internet search engines. Using their tools to narrow search criteria, I looked for the number of website results for the words “free reverse cell phone”. I did not use quotes in the search as that would have resulted in getting only the sites that used those words in that order and I wanted all sites that used those words in any combination.

Google returned 1.7 million results. Keep that figure in mind as I share how many of those sites really offer a free mobile phone number search.

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Can I Locate Someone by Mobile Phone?

My 15 year old daughter has a cell phone and has started to receive calls from a number with which she is unfamiliar.  As a parent, this is incredibly troubling.  This only came up when she asked me the other day, “Dad, can I locate someone by mobile phone?”

I was not immediately aware what she was after but once I asked a few questions it became obvious that somehow her cell phone number had either sprung up on some list somewhere, someone was repeatedly calling a wrong number, or someone was intentionally trying to bother my daughter.

I was very concerned that it was that last option.  The first few times the mobile number popped up on her phone, she answered it unknowingly and the person hung up on her.

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