Canadian Reverse LookupReverse Phone and Address Lookup Information

Do you need to locate someone and all you have is a phone number? Did you know that it is possible to take advantage of many online tools, some of them free, in order to do a reverse phone number search and find the name and address of the person that you are looking for.

The first thing you need to do is to determine whether or not the phone number of the person is a landline or a cell phone number. Fonefinder.net is a free tool that allows you to quickly find this out.

The next step is to use Google. One of the best sources to do a free reverse look-up for landline numbers is the Google search engine. If you type in the phone number in the format (XXX) XXX-XXXX, the name and address of the owner will often come up in the search engine results. This is often all that is necessary to find the information that you are looking for but if this does not produce a result then there are other tools to consider.

Some of these services are available for free. Here are a few to consider:

Anywho
http://www.anywho.com/rl.html
This site also allows you to type in a phone number for free
and search for a matching name and address.

PhoneNumber.com
http://www.phonenumber.com/reverse_phone.xhtml

SmartPages.com
http://www.smartpages.com/whitepages/?wppage=reverse-phone

Whitepages.com
http://www.whitepages.com/1129/reverse-phone

Reverse Phone Directory
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/
This site allows you to search one phone number in several different online directories, including “White Pages,” “Phone Number,” and “InfoSpace.”

Please bear in mind that the information is only available of the name of the person to whom the phone number is registered. Also none of these sites provide information for cell phone numbers or unlisted numbers.

Okay, so how then do we go about locating the owner of an unlisted number? And what about cell phones – is it possible to find out who a particular cell phone number belongs to? Reverse cell phone lookup has always been more difficult than reversing landline numbers.

Well you could consider one of the many commercial “private detective services” that will help locate someone for you. Prices vary but typically you could pay $85 or more for this type of service. Usually the company will offer a refund if they cannot obtain the information for you.

There is one another option and that is to become your own private detective! The key here is to learn how to access the various online databases that are used by private investigators, law firms, police departments, businesses and individuals all around the world. Examples of some of these online databases include State and County public records, Court records, credit reports and so on. These records will often yield the information that you are looking for.

Irene Graham writes for www.Ist-Web-Detective.com where you can learn more about how to reverse lookup phone numbers Please feel free to use this article in your Newsletter or on your website. If you use this article, please include the resource box.

Skipease, a blog dedicated to “skip tracing, public records, and investigation”, suggests this tip:

One of the best ways for doing reverse lookups on unpublished phone numbers; addresses; cell phone numbers and email addresses is to look for them on the major search engines.

Continue on to Skipease and read the whole tip.

I have added information about the WhitePages.ca reverse phone lookup directory to the National section of the Reverse lookup Canadian addresses page.

The service is free to use and is able to reverse lookup regular phone numbers, toll-free numbers and numbers with characters.

Update: I have gone ahead and have added even more information to the Reverse loojup Canadian address page. There are now sections covering reverse lookups of area codes and postal codes. Since WhitePages.ca offers all of these services, they have been added under each of the sections with a brief description of the service.