One of the common questions that people have been asking in various forums is if you can do a background check of an unknown person using a reverse cell phone lookup. The answer is YES and NO!
A simple reverse cell phone lookup gives people search results
That's correct! A typical reverse phone lookup gives you basic information like the name, address and information about his or her relatives. A reverse phone number lookup is not meant to give you complete background information of a particular person. A comprehensive background check typically gives detailed information about the person in question such as listed below.
- Name
- Address history – that is present address and past address/es
- Property information and history – houses he/she has owned; their value, square area, neighborhood information etc.
- Marriage records – is the person (or has the person been) married; does he/she have any divorce records?
- Court records – various civil and court records if available. Note that not everybody will have court records
- Criminal records – has the person any criminal records? A comprehensive background check usually includes a criminal record check as well. This may include theft, sex offender records etc. etc.
- Financial/commercial records – the person's financial records (e.g. credit score) can also often be obtainable through a background investigation
- Employment records
As you can see, a background check is much more comprehensive than a reverse cell phone lookup.
You can do a background check with a reverse cell search as well!
The logic is really simple here. You use the cell phone number of the unknown person to find out his/her actual name. Then once you find out the name, you use that to carry out a background check. Now that wasn't too complicated was it? The only thing is that it's a bit expensive! Background checks don't come cheap! They are typically about $40 if you are looking for a comprehensive check up.
While a typical reverse cell phone lookup (free reverse cell phone lookup or paid reverse phone lookup) is carried out for personal reasons, the typical background investigation is mostly carried out for official reasons. For example, a company may decide to check a person's background history as part of their pre-employment screening. Another instance could be when a person is given a responsible job post. The employer would obviously want to make sure that the person has no criminal records and that he can be trusted with classified information. This page on Wikipedia has more information about background investigations.
In contrast, people carry out reverse cell phone lookups when they get anonymous telephone calls, prank calls, or to find out the caller of a missed call or even to check if their loved ones may be cheating on them.
Hope this article on the different results you can obtain with a reverse phone lookup and background investigation was useful.
Can you do a free reverse cell phone lookup with name? The number of people trying to reverse lookup cell phone numbers has increased dramatically on the internet. This is thanks to several different reasons.
- Infidelity has increased in the USA as well as other 'developed' countries. Reverse cell phone lookup has become a popular mode of catching cheating partners. According to this article, pornography is responsible for this increase in cheating spouses. This is based on research carried out by Dr. Patrick Fagan, PhD, a psychologist and former Deputy Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary.
- With various technological applications, people are able to make telephone calls and yet mask their identity. Most of them are innocent, yet can be expected to increase the amount of prank calls going around.
- With safety of children becoming an increasingly concerning issue everyday, parents tend to use reverse phone lookups to check on who their kids are talking to.
- With identity theft amounting to millions everyday, people do background checks, neighborhood checks, reverse email checks and of course, reverse cell phone number checks all the time.
The above mentioned and many other reasons have accounted for all these hundreds of thousands of reverse phone searches done on the internet every month. According to a keyword research tool provided by the leading search engine Google.com, as much as 165,000 searches are carried out for the phrase 'reverse cell phone lookup' every month. That's over 5000 searches every single day!
Can you do a free reverse cell phone lookup with name?
The short answer is no! But you can get lucky….. rarely!
The short answer is no because details about cellular phone users is not published in public databases such as the white pages. This information is considered 'classified' data or private sensitive information that should not be out there for anyone and everyone to easily get their hands on and abuse. Therefore, unless you're ready to pay a few dollars to one of those web based reverse cell phone directories, you will not be able to find a person's name by reverse looking up a mobile number.
However, some people may have listed their personal information on all kinds of social networking sites available today. For example, Lindsey Talbert (a hypothetical name) may have listed her cell phone number as 858-384-2376 (hypothetical number) on her FaceBook profile. If the page has been indexed by Google (and/or other search engines) and you type in 858-384-2376 to the Google search bar, you will be able to find that particular page and bingo….. you have your free reverse cell phone lookup with name. However, this is a slim chance because people don't list their cell phone number or even their email addresses because they are bound to get spammed.
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