![]() | Jen Anderson (Personal Private Investigator) Works to Help Those who Suspect their Partner of Cheating I know what it takes to find someone when I'm handed only a phone number, and I know what makes a good Reverse Phone Detective. In my own line of work, phone detectives aren't the only method I use, but I do use them on a daily basis, and separating the good ones from the poor ones can make all the difference in finding out who someone is from just a call. |
As a private investigator I work everyday to help people
catch their cheating spouses. One tool that I often use, and that I
recommend to my clients as well, is a reverse phone detective. These
simple systems allow you to find a name (and often an address) by
simply typing in a cell phone or home phone number.
When you begin to look at these services there is one
thing you will find: There is a huge range in quality when it
comes to the reverse phone detective market.
Some systems have the most
up-to-date databases, with huge lists that include millions of cell
phone numbers. Other's won't even be able to find a number that's been
listed for the past five years. With that, let's just start by talking
about what a reverse phone detective is and is not.
First,
a reverse phone detective is NOT the definitive solution to finding
people. Although the good systems will have a huge database, they only
work by phone number so they will only work to find people whose number you already have.
Second, NOT everyone will need a
reverse phone detective. If the number you're searching for is a
land line, you can likely find the name by using your phone companies
web site (at least try it first).
Third, a Reverse Phone Detective is an excellent way to find out who has been calling. They can help you find out that cheating spouse, catch that prank caller, or simply find out who someone is before you answer.
Fourth,if you don't take the time to choose the best phone detective, not only are you wasting your money, but you might end up with bad information. An old database can give you the wrong name, the wrong address, and suddenly you're worse off than when you started!
Since I recommend them to my clients on a regular basis I, along with some friends, took the time to evaluate the top reverse phone detectives available today. We based our
evaluations on the following criteria.
Testing the systems wasn't difficult. To accomplish it we simply signed
up for all of them, and the grabbed some phone bills, some cell and
toll free numbers that we had written down, and started searching. Below you will find our results for the top five reverse phone
detectives.
Our recommendations are well laid out, but if you do need
help please feel free to email me (info@affiliate-marketing-advantages.com). I have no problem helping
you with any questions you may have.
To Finding People the Easy Way,
Jen Anderson
catch their cheating spouses. One tool that I often use, and that I
recommend to my clients as well, is a reverse phone detective. These
simple systems allow you to find a name (and often an address) by
simply typing in a cell phone or home phone number.
When you begin to look at these services there is one
thing you will find: There is a huge range in quality when it
comes to the reverse phone detective market.
Some systems have the most
up-to-date databases, with huge lists that include millions of cell
phone numbers. Other's won't even be able to find a number that's been
listed for the past five years. With that, let's just start by talking
about what a reverse phone detective is and is not.
First,
a reverse phone detective is NOT the definitive solution to finding
people. Although the good systems will have a huge database, they only
work by phone number so they will only work to find people whose number you already have.
Second, NOT everyone will need a
reverse phone detective. If the number you're searching for is a
land line, you can likely find the name by using your phone companies
web site (at least try it first).
Third, a Reverse Phone Detective is an excellent way to find out who has been calling. They can help you find out that cheating spouse, catch that prank caller, or simply find out who someone is before you answer.
Fourth,if you don't take the time to choose the best phone detective, not only are you wasting your money, but you might end up with bad information. An old database can give you the wrong name, the wrong address, and suddenly you're worse off than when you started!
Since I recommend them to my clients on a regular basis I, along with some friends, took the time to evaluate the top reverse phone detectives available today. We based our
evaluations on the following criteria.
- Ability to Find Numbers - Obviously our main criteria was on how many numbers the phone detective could recognize overall.
- Cell Phone Numbers - How many cellular
numbers could the detective find? These generally aren't listed so only
the best databases will find all of them. - Toll Free Numbers - Could the system give us information on 1-800 numbers that called us?
- Land Line Numbers - Was it able to provide information on land lines? Even those that weren't listed?
- Amount of Information - How much information could we get with a single search?
- Up to Date - How current was the data gathered from all the above searches?
- Overall Rating - Based on all of the other criteria we gave each system an overall rating.
Testing the systems wasn't difficult. To accomplish it we simply signed
up for all of them, and the grabbed some phone bills, some cell and
toll free numbers that we had written down, and started searching. Below you will find our results for the top five reverse phone
detectives.
Our recommendations are well laid out, but if you do need
help please feel free to email me (info@affiliate-marketing-advantages.com). I have no problem helping
you with any questions you may have.
To Finding People the Easy Way,
Jen Anderson
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| Highly Recommended2. Reverse MobileIn second place we have a service called Reverse Mobile. This one performed almost as well as Phone Number Scan, but it didn't perform quite as well with the cell numbers or toll free numbers. Also, we had a few searches that provided out-dated information. When you use Reverse Mobile, you are presented with a decent data set for each search. Most searches provided a name, a location, and some even gave us an exact address. Out of a few hundred numbers searched there were really only a few that didn't have data. Having said that, since Phone Number Scan out-classed this one, Reverse Mobile takes a solid second place. All in all reverse Mobile did perform well and takes second place as highly recommended. Since the cost is the same as our winner though, most people will be better off with our top pick. |
| Also Recommended3. Cell Phone RegistryTakingthird place is Cell Phone Registry. This one actually performed fairly well for numbers searched in the US. The problem is that our top two were also able to find cell numbers and toll free numbers in Canada and Mexico. If you need a decent US-only search service you may want to choose this one. They provide an okay data set, their database is up-to-date, and they were able to provide data on most of the cell numbers we searched. Having said that - both of the top two on our list outperformed Cell Phone Registry, and the cost is the same. For most users, our top pick is a better choice. The data was more up-to-date and Phone Number Scan found more numbers. |
| Also Recommended 4. Reverse Phone Check |
| Also Recommended5.Phone RegistryThe last reverse phone lookup service that we are covering is called Phone Registry. If you were looking for a land-line only lookup service this one might make a good choice. For everything else though, any of the other four products on our list did better. Phone Registry was able to provide good data for land lines. With cell numbers, toll free numbers, or name searches the same wasn't true. About half of our searches provided us with outdated data, and many of them yielded no results at all. This one did out-perform some of the other services we tested, so it is in the top five. With four other services that have this one beat, it wouldn't be my first choice. |