Next time you want to see who is on the other end of a call without them knowing write down the complete number with area code. The first thing you can try is any major search engine. Enter the number in quotes, "xxx-xxx-xxxx" or try Phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx and see what you get back, While this works great for most land lines, cell phone are usually not in the system unless the person has posted their number online somewhere.

It might be that you would have to pay a one time fee and use a paid service. There are some good reasons why using a paid service. You would be provide the service that can any cell, unlisted, pay phone, pager, mobile, business or residential. Plus depending on what service you may decide to use you could even get more details, like criminal and court records, marriage and divorce, address history and even people search for finding lost friends or classmates.

In past, caller ID did not exist and telephone pranks were a very common thing to deal with. The problem lies with finding out who the owner of that telephone number is. As you may know, finding out the owners of telephone numbers are completely different from cellphone numbers, so your search will be slightly different.

Of course, you will want to write down that phone number. Then, you must search for a website online that has this information. Although the majority of them will claim to be free of charge, in actuality, there is some fee required to be paid before you can actually find out the name of the "prankster".

Or maybe you have been getting calls late at night and do not want to turn your phone off you can run the number through a search and get their info, print it out and call them back. Most people are so shocked that you now know who they are and where they live they never call back again. In most cases it ends up being someone you know like an ex boyfriend or girlfriend.

Now I do not condone being nosy but if you find a strange number on your spouse's phone what are you supposed to do? Would you ask your spouse whose number it was? But hold, you would really not want to believe any explanation given to you, would you? Even if it is true or not. Probably not...by using a reverse phone finder you don't even need to ask. Then there is no fight involved (unless you find out there cheating of course).

So is it really worth paying for a reverse phone service? You will be suprised at the sort of info you can get with just a phone number. The information you get back is the same type you had to hire a private investigator to get access to. Now you can use the same services the professionals use!