Why would anyone want to do a reverse phone search and how could it be of any use? If you are wondering the answers to these two questions, you may have tried conducting a phone search on your own. It is likely that what you discovered after you did a free search was basically nothing.

Now when you see advertising online about similar searches, you have your suspicions. What you are suspecting is that the search is useless and will provide little or no valuable information and so you probably think that the whole idea is a scam.

The truth is that the free phone search can provide you with very limited information. The reason is that this is not public information, and in order to access the more private information that you are most likely seeking, you will need to pay for a reverse search. The information that you will have access to with a paid search will be much more detailed than the information in a free search.

The search companies online have to pay for the information that you would have access to in a paid phone number lookup. For this reason, they must pass the cost of a search on to the person who needs a search done. This allows them to provide you with the most up to date information, which is important, because some of the paid to search sites offer up information that is not the most recent or useful.

What kind of information can you have access to? Generally, with a paid phone number lookup you can access a person's full name, date of birth, current and past addresses, and even employment and income information. There may also be household income information and debt information, depending upon the details of the contract that was completed by that person when they obtained the phone number.

The long and short of it is that you should definitely pay for the most up to date information if that is what you are after. Anything less is going to lead to disappointment, so why even go there? Most paid phone number reverse lookup sites offer various options, including one-time, monthly or annual fees, but it all depends on how many searches you will be doing. There is no reason to be left in the dark about that number that keeps calling you, when you can find out in a matter of minutes all of the details with respect to that number.