Don't Get Scammed by Reverse Phone Lookup Services, That Don't Deliver
We Rate The Most Popular Services
If you are looking to find out who owns a particular phone number (residential, commercial, cell phone, toll-free, etc.), you will likely come across dozens of reverse phone number lookup services in Google and Yahoo. But how will you know which service to use? Our crack team of editors and reviewers spent 5 weeks reviewing all these services to find the right answer.
To review each service, our editors first identified 41 different companies that were providing online reverse phone lookup services. They then used each of these 41 services to search for 500 different phone numbers for which we already knew the owners. This allowed us to verify the accuracy of the results provided by each service.
The 500 numbers included an even mix of different types of phones (landlines, cell phones, toll-free numbers, etc.) and were evenly distributed across different states in the U.S.
For each company, we calculated the percentage of numbers for which they provided accurate and detailed information.
To our complete surprise, our editors found that most online reverse phone lookup services simply don't deliver the goods. In most cases, their accuracy levels were as low as 50 - 60% (which we consider to be completely unacceptable). And yet, all these services claimed to have very high levels of accuracy and completeness.
Fortunately, we were able to find 3 companies that we can recommend to our readers. All 3 of them had very high levels of accuracy and completeness (95% or more). Here are our top 3 choices:
#Reverse Phone Detective
It's no surprise that Reverse Phone Detective was our top pick. They maintain one of the largest and most accurate databases of phone numbers on the Web. Their service is top-rated amongst private investigators - and with good reason. Just about every search, we did come back with correct, up-to-date, and accurate results (their overall accuracy level is 99.4% - the highest among all the services we evaluated). You can't go wrong with this excellent service.
- Accurate Database
- Easy To Navigate - User Friendly
- Good Value
- Strong Guarantee
#Reverse Mobile
Just behind Reverse Phone Detective, Reverse Mobile did a good job of finding numbers, including unlisted numbers. We measured the accuracy of this site at just below 97% - still very good for an online service. We were very impressed with the customer service from this vendor.
- Accurate Database
- Easy To Navigate - User Friendly
- Good Value
- Strong Guarantee
#Cellphone Registry
While not as accurate in finding unlisted numbers as our previous two services, nonetheless, Cell Phone Registry did an admirable job finding most of the numbers in our tests with little difficulty.
- Easy To Navigate - User Friendly
- Good Value
- Strong Guarantee
You can't go wrong with any of the 3 services listed above. We ran them all through a rigorous set of tests, and all of them performed well. However, Reverse Phone Detective continued to be the leader and scored highest overall.