| Suspect cheating? Sadly, statistics show that in | | | | First, assuming she's right about her suspicions, |
| over 85% of cases, those who think their partner | | | | they both now know it and will likely to a much |
| is cheating, are right. But suspicions are worthless | | | | better job covering their tracks, making proving |
| and few people are going the throw away a | | | | the affair difficult or impossible. Secondly, she may |
| relationship based on playing the odds. You want | | | | have embarrassed them both by yelling at an |
| some proof before you break up, move on, or | | | | innocent business contact or some other |
| do whatever you will do once you really know | | | | blameless party. |
| what's going on. | | | | What she should have done was obtain the help |
| Distilled down to its essence, infidelity requires only | | | | of an investigator who specialized in phone |
| opportunity and communication. If they can't get | | | | number searches. Such agencies can be found on |
| out of the house, they can't cheat. That one's | | | | the web, but buyer beware: there are more |
| easy. But what most people-even most infidelity | | | | scam sites than legitimate ones. |
| investigators-don't seem to grasp is that without | | | | Most companies advertising these kind of phone |
| having arranged a time and place to meet, | | | | number searches, either don't provide what they |
| affair-style cheating is impossible. The two (or | | | | promise, collect money and then send the |
| more) parties involved have to communicate. And | | | | customer to a legitimate, unrelated site, or search |
| this is almost always done by cell phone. Why? | | | | some unrelated database, find no info and charge |
| Landline phones are risky and can't text. While cell | | | | the customer anyway. To find a legitimate site, |
| phones offer a number of different | | | | avoid any company promising "instant" results, or |
| communicational possibilities, are mobile, can be | | | | :unlimited searches," as these sites only use |
| set to vibrate to receive calls silently, etc. When it | | | | databases and directories that contain very few |
| comes to communicating on the sly, the cell | | | | cell phone numbers, and do not verify their |
| phone is definitely the weapon of choice. | | | | results. |
| Remember, this goes for the calling party, too. | | | | A legitimate cell phone search [ requires a custom |
| And is quite often the fatal mistake needed to | | | | investigation be done by a live person. Despite the |
| expose the relationship. Strange calls on your | | | | empty promises, there is no cell phone directory, |
| partner's phone probably aren't good news. Calls | | | | or database. Which is why so many people |
| made only during the times you aren't around are | | | | searching for a free cell phone number search |
| usually indicative of cheating. | | | | would have better luck finding the Fountain of |
| Imagine a wife seeing a list of calls on her | | | | Youth. Real investigative research takes time and |
| husband's cell phone placed to or received from a | | | | effort, and no company is going to have their |
| particular number only at convenient times: during | | | | investigators spend time on a service they don't |
| his drive to work, on his lunch break, during his | | | | charge for. Anyone needing a cell phone number |
| drive home, during his alleged golf game on the | | | | search, should look for a company that admits to |
| weekends, at the time he was running errands-all | | | | actual, custom investigations without the use of |
| the times he was away from her. This should | | | | directories, or databases, and that promises |
| raise a serious red flag and she should be tripping | | | | verified, accurate results. |
| over herself to try to get this number identified. | | | | Those who need a number identified should also |
| Unfortunately, most wives get worked up, cal the | | | | price shop, as charges run between $50 and $125 |
| number and demand that the woman who | | | | for the same info. |
| answers identify herself. This is a horrible idea. | | | | |