Cell Phone Number Look Up Scams Exposed!

So you're looking for someone's cell phone number and hitting a brick wall, you go online and type "find cell number" into Google. Oh great, only 10 million results pop up, you're search just got lot more complicated. And on top of the long search, you have to worry about spyware, identity thieves, bad products and just scams in general.

The wealth of information on the Internet combined with the near total un-regulation leaves a lot of space for shady people to put whatever they want online. They'll pose as experts, as researchers or anything to get your money. At best Internet scammers will waste your time, at worst you'll be stuck with a huge bill or your identity stolen.

What to look for in an Internet phone finder scam:

Big Promises:

If a web site says it can find any person's cell phone number, it probably can't. The reality is there is no complete database of numbers. And since the biggest such company was pressured to shut down, the legality of such databases has been called into question.

Free Offers:

Any site promising a free way to look for a persons cell phone number is not being truthful. It always costs at least some money to search for a number.

Requires an E-mail Address:

Beware of any offer that asks first for your e-mail before anything else. These types of sites are only looking to get your address so they can spam you later with other offers. They will probably not even contain a cell phone finder. Some sites you'll probably find when looking for a cell number will also say they'll e-mail you the results later to get you to sign up, exposing your email to spammers.

But not all cell phone registry sites are scams, they won't find every single person's cell phone number, but because they're connected to public records, they're legal and provide good results for a small fee.

Are you having trouble finding someone's cell phone number? Try out the longstanding http://www.cellphoneregistry.org can prove a lot of your information. Check it out and see what kind of information you can really find online.