How to Use Reverse Lookup for Free (Sometimes) With Cellphone and Landline Numbers

When someone calls you, either on their land line or cell phone, and you don't recognize the phone number, it's handy to be able to look up where they're calling from for a clue. Reverse lookup is the answer. You may be able to look up a cell phone number or a land line number using reverse lookup. But can you do this for free? Sort of, in some cases.

Things You'll Need

• Reverse Lookup website
• Phone number (cell phone or land line)

Instructions

1. If the person was calling on a land line, use the Reverse Lookup or Reverse Phone Lookup features for free at whocalled.us (note the domain), whitepages.com, at yellowpages.com, or at switchboard.com. (No, the author of this article is not affiliated with any of them.) With at least one of these sites, you can find their name, address, and certain other publicly available demographic information.

2. Find limited information by conducting a search with reverse lookup services for cell phone numbers. You may need to pay a small fee if you want to get a person's name by their cell phone number. However, you may be able to deduce who is calling you by using the reverse lookup module for free and finding out the location where they are calling from and figuring out who you know from that location.

3. Find a person's city and county and time zone by searching reverse lookup databases for cellphone numbers. Depending on the service, there will be a cost for more specific public information in the event you want to access their name, address history, relatives, criminal history, income, home value, and other details of their financial history by using reverse lookup.

4. Use services for reverse lookup to look up a cell phone number online on Anywho.com, Reverse Mobile, Reverse Phone Detective, or Reverse Records.