| In the past, before the age of cell phones and caller | | | | telemarketers and identity thieves away from our |
| IDs you had no choice but to answer any and all calls | | | | wireless numbers is to make them unlisted or |
| that you got. Thanks to the caller ID, nowadays you | | | | unavailable for public access. That's the only way to |
| can say if the call is from someone you know or not. | | | | protect mobile phone user privacy. |
| Wrong numbers drives me crazy when I get calls | | | | Does it mean that you can't trace cell numbers? |
| from numbers that I don't recognize. I'm sure I'm not | | | | Not at all, you can for ~90% of the numbers. Certain |
| alone here. For one, they waste my time, secondly | | | | third party companies have been given the authority to |
| they waste my minutes and money. | | | | build their own mobile number databases. There are |
| Don't you wish there was a way to lookup who the | | | | multiple companies doing this. However, they don't |
| caller is when you don't know the number? We | | | | have all the numbers in the USA. For example |
| actually can. In the past only private detectives could | | | | company A might have 10 million numbers more than |
| do this. They had to get the information through the | | | | company B. This is why it is very important that you |
| CIA or FBI. Not only did they take up to 2 weeks to | | | | pick the correct service to trace cell phone numbers. |
| get you the information, they were also very | | | | Because collecting all these numbers and maintaining |
| expensive. Even today you can find private eyes | | | | databases is a costly procedure, they're not willing to |
| charging as much as $200. But the era of private | | | | share this information for free. There are certain |
| investigators is over. You can be your own special | | | | 'services' that charge as much as $200, but then there |
| agent thanks to online tools. | | | | are others that only charge you a fraction of that and |
| But there's a Hitch | | | | yet give you all the basic information such as the |
| Cell phone numbers are not listed on telephone | | | | phone owner's full name, exact address and map |
| directories. Have you seen a Verizon, T-Mobile or | | | | location and even house hold member |
| Sprint phone book? That's because they don't exist. | | | | information.Technology is amazing, all withing a couple |
| Mobile numbers are not public domain information like | | | | of minutes. |
| land phone numbers. The only way to keep | | | | |