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There are many ways to start phone number search. If you have a landline number to lookup, you can call 411 services and get information for free. Also you can try to lookup number on their website. Keep in mind that free reverse lookup databases are cared less then paid and information about phone number owners is not as comprehensive as their paid competitors.

It is very easy to lookup landline phone number in Canada. One of the top free reverse lookup services are whitepages.ca and canada411.ca. This services will provide you with some information about any Canadian landline number, but keep in mind that these are free services and results may not be comprehensive and updated as paid services.

In the case of free sites offering reverse lookup services, you can locate names and addresses for landline phone numbers. Practically the same as what’s in a phonebook. When these services first appeared, they were effective for finding contact information on telemarketers, family members and relatives, or friends.

Another option is to use search engines to find reverse lookup services. When you search Google, Yahoo or MSN, you’ll get dozens of results. I suggest you to review several top results separately and read their FAQ’s.

The trouble of finding most accurate Canadian phone number lookup service starts when you have to lookup cell phone number. Bad news is that these cell phones are not accessible in the phonebook. As all free lookup websites acquire their information from public phonebooks, they don’t have information on cell phone numbers.

After you find service which offers reverse cell phone lookup, make sure the service includes Canadian numbers. Many are limited to the United States. These specific websites offer access to over 99% of all cell phone numbers for only a small charge. It will immediately give you features like the name, address, personal history information, criminal details, carrier activities, all phone numbers owned by the person you are searching, and much more. If you can’t find the information, online help assistance and reimbursements are available, on most sites. You may consider contacting websites support to make sure that you’ll get accurate information.

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Detecting somebody calling you on a telephone had been almost impossible without getting assistance from the phone company itself. These days, you can locate addresses on your own by the help of reverse phone lookup service, by just typing full telephone number you want to check.

Reverse phone tools in Canada had been developed in the last few years, after Internet became very important thing amongst us. Nowadays, almost everyone has an access to Internet at home, or in any case an Internet café nearby, where you can use Internet for a reasonable price.

The service of reverse phone lookup allows you to locate information about anyone by just knowing his/her telephone number. This is a very effective service when a strange number appears in your missed calls while checking it. Or when someone calls you all the time on your telephone and you don’t know who he/she might be. Regardless of, it is your family member or any relative of yours, your main care in such occasions is to uncover the mysterious caller, and at this moment this service we are talking about proves its enormous advantages.

The main suppliers of reverse phone lookup services are located in USA and Canada.

When you are looking up a phone number in Canada and you want to get full information on it, you might ask yourself: Can I get this full service free? Here is an answer on your question.

There are two types of reverse lookup services: paid directories and free directories. Lots of companies have free phone lookup services, but they are only for landlines, it won’t allow you to search for a mobile phone number. Some sites claim to be free of fees but somehow you’ll each time be asked to pay before receiving your acquired information. You can’t even locate someone’s exact address. Moreover you might get tired and frustrated, as again and again they are using phone directories that are available widely, so there accuracy is completely under question. The information offered by free services is not satisfactory when you want to get full information on any number.

The best selection would be deciding on paid reverse phone lookup service, where in most cases you pay a charge and you obtain limitless service, or for a lesser fee, you obtain the possibility to check out and locate the information about your strange caller.

The paid reverse phone lookup services are able to offer you the essential details like: locating the exact address of someone you are looking for, together with the name of the person owning the residence. This is not the whole list of services offered by such websites. You can also learn basic features such as: criminal record of the person owning the telephone number, also his/her marital status, bankruptcy records, possessions records and other helpful information that can be used for direct and accurate information checks. Memberships to most reverse lookup service websites come with a whole year worth of searching abilities.

You can also use reverse 411 services. Where you just have to enter the area code and number and you get the results in a minute. You will get full information on the owner of the number.

Using reliable reverse lookup service is your way out to uncover anyone by phone number.

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Probably not splashy enough for Discovery Canada’s MythBusters, the growing proliferation of free reverse phone lookup sites on the Web deserves some attention as well as comparison against what they offer versus the fee-based sites.

For Canadians living under a rock, a reverse phone lookup site allows them to discover an unknown phone number’s owner. They simply type in the phone number they want to look up into any of the many sites found on the Web and results come back instantly.

The applications for this type of phone number search range from businesses screening their latest job applicants to parents checking out prospective nannies to figuring out who just called from an unpublished phone number. It’s even been used by law enforcement agencies to solve crimes. But often times people just want to know more about a missed call they had. Was it from a possible business lead or a prospective employer? A reverse phone lookup site allows them to know.

Technically speaking there is such a creature out there as a free reverse phone lookup site for consumers but those sites are only really effective when the phone number is from a business or a private individual calling from a landline or residential line. Additionally, the phone number owner’s must also have chosen their number to be viewed publicly. If the number is unpublished, then these sites will only tell a consumer whether the number is a landline or not and what city it’s located in.

If the phone number’s owner has decided to allow the public to view the number, then these sites will give out the phone owner’s full name, full address, and, in some cases, even driving directions to that address.

In effect, free reverse lookup websites are using information that consumers have allowed to be viewed publicly or consumers have provided to third parties, such as when take online surveys or subscribe to magazines. This information is usually sold to data collection agencies that in turn sell the information to another source. So the free sites are basically just giving back consumers the information that is already out there and then trying to sell them on something else such deeper searches on unpublished numbers or criminal background checks. The information on these free reverse lookup sites is even gathered from many of the most popular social networking sites on the Web.

So while the sites don’t cost anything the catch is that the only fruitful searches will be for phone numbers that are from landlines and the owner’s have allowed them to be viewed publicly. Unknown or private cell phone numbers are not included.

And there is the fly in the ointment. They are free but only for …

On the other hand, fee-based search sites will offer consumers access to millions of those pesky private and unpublished numbers, ominous unknown ones and even toll-free numbers and pagers. These sites basically compile publicly available information, information from government sources, third party data collection agencies and even the phone companies and cell phone providers themselves, and offer consumers an information mega-store, even give consumers the option of getting a background or criminal check on the phone number’s owner.

Additionally, consumers can pay per search or subscribe yearly for unlimited searches and the fee-based sites will guarantee search results or the search is free.

So while the free reverse lookup sites tout of having millions of phone numbers, they don’t have many of the unpublished cell numbers that people are using today. But they will provide access to those cell numbers, they claim, for a fee, which just turned them from a free to a fee-based site.

Even they tacitly admit that for truly better-quality search results consumers need to pay up.

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The proliferation of reverse lookup websites on the Internet has become a blessing that has allowed Canadian law enforcement agencies to solve crimes and businesses to properly vet prospective employees that may be working with children or sensitive information.

Although less ominous, but equally important, it has also given Canadian consumers the ability to keep in touch with high-school classmates and long lost family and friends.

For those Canadians unversed in the ways of the Web and only use it to check the latest hockey scores, reverse lookup websites allow consumers to search for the owner of a phone number in a database. It is a simple matter of typing in the questionable phone number into one of many sites that specialize in reverse lookups and they can instantly get the full name and address of the phone number and even driving directions to the address.

Although it is a useful tool to solve the mystery of the late night calls from unpublished numbers, it has also allowed personal information of many Canadians to be displayed without their consent and has become a major nuisance for those who love their privacy. Recent divorcees may not want to be contacted by their ex-spouses’ family or maybe those late night phone calls have become too unbearable.

But there are several ways to be removed from reverse lookup websites, with some methods quicker than others. One of the first things consumers should do is a self-reverse lookup to check what information is out there. They can next jot down where their information appears and then get to work on removing it. And the good thing is that most all of the sites have some way of opting out and removing personal information so it is simply a matter of contacting them.

For example, if their name and phone number appears on a site like the White Pages, which is one of the major reverse lookup sites and claims to have about 600 million names and phone numbers in its database, they just click on the phone number and their information will appear. Below their name is a link that will ask them if they would like to remove the listing. They can then follow through there and confirm the listing’s removal which is usually immediate but may take up to 24 hours to be removed.

Another big player on the reverse lookup website scene is a site called Intelius which also deals in personal information such as background checks and sex offender searches. This site honors requests from consumers to allow to them to be removed from their reverse lookup website only after faxing them proof of identity and the process takes about four to six weeks.

Yahoo will allow consumers to remove their information from their Yahoo White Pages after filling out a brief form that includes the reason for requesting their removal from their reverse lookup website. The listing is usually removed in one business day.

A more preventive method is to be wary of providing businesses and other third parties, which usually sell that data, personal information. For example, the personal information in these reverse lookup websites is typically acquired from a combination of publicly available data and third parties that deal in that type of information that is provided when consumers give out their personal information for a contest or magazine subscription.

Even sites like MySpace or Facebook sell or publish listing information in some way or another so it would be wise for consumers to think twice about giving out too much personal information because removing it from reverse lookup websites is a lot harder than it was providing it.

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Recipients of missed phone calls from unknown or private cell phone numbers know how frustrating it is to not be able to call the number back, especially when the calls come in at the most inopportune times. Job seekers want to know if the missed call was from a prospective employer just as much as entrepreneurs want to know if that unpublished number was from a possible client.

There is relief for this modern day annoyance through the use of a cell phone lookup, which is exactly what it sounds like – searching for a cell phone number’s owner via a search engine. And the cell phone lookup is simple even for the most non-tech savvy Canadians.

The cell phone lookup is simply done by entering the cell phone number they want to check into any number of search engines found on the Web.

One no-cost way to do a cell phone lookup is to get the cell phone number and plug it into a mega-database like Yahoo or Google to check for the owner’s name but they won’t likely get any meaningful results for cell phone numbers.

However the absolute best method for doing a cell phone lookup with superior results is to use one of the many premium cell phone lookup databases that charge a minute fee and will provide users a cell phone owner’s full name and more.

Fee -based sites for a cell phone lookup give users access to literally millions upon millions of cell accounts and usually offer different levels of access. For example, some will only charge for one cell phone lookup at a time while others may offer a month’s worth of cell phone lookups for a nominal charge. And the best thing is that they give users access to unpublished, unknown and private cell phone numbers, ending once and for the annoying question: who is calling from a private number?

And the uses of fee-based sites are not strictly relegated to satisfying someone’s curiosity.

For example, day care center operators can unobtrusively check out job applicants who will be working with children. Concerned parents can discreetly check out who their teens are calling through a cell phone lookup. Or perhaps someone is suspicious their spouse is having an affair. A cell phone lookup will quietly allow someone to see a cell phone number’s full information.

A cell phone lookup is also helpful when trying to find long lost friends or relatives and the best thing about using fee-based sites is that most of them offer guaranteed results or will return their fee.

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Is someone calling you and you don’t know who it is? Does your husband make suspicious calls? Is your teen child acting suspicious? These are only a few reasons why you need phone number reverse lookup.

Like in the USA, In Canada phone number lookup services are available, both paid and free. Mostly you will have to pay nothing for landline numbers, but for cell phone numbers, it’s hard to find free options. Anyways there are dozens of services online who offer cheap cell phone number lookups, but unfortunately most of them are just scam. We offer honest review of top reverse lookup services, which will be added very soon here on this page.

Other reason you may be interested in phone lookup services is to remove your phone number from their databases. Sometimes you just don’t want your phone number to be visible publicly. The first easy step I suggest you to do in order to be removed from public databases is searching your number on Google, there is a big chance of finding exact database and their contact email. If you will be unsuccessfull, then last thing is checking paid databases and contacting them for removal, lifetime removal from the databases may cost you small fee ($4-5).