| There are many reasons why we would like to | | | | we want to trace. But this is near impossible. |
| trace a phone number and find more information | | | | But the computer and internet has made |
| about it. On the extreme end of things, we can | | | | reversing searching a phone number a piece of |
| hire a private investigator to find out who and | | | | cake. All you have to do is go to a reverse trace |
| where those calls are coming from. But this can | | | | number website and input the phone number you |
| quite costly in terms of money; the hourly rates | | | | want more information on, and basic information |
| can easily be in the hundreds of dollars, and there | | | | such as number location will be displayed. If you |
| is usually a minimum charge when hiring such | | | | want detailed information such as the phone |
| services. More over, you might feel that hiring a | | | | numbers' registered owner and current address, |
| private investigator might be going overboard. | | | | address history, and even family members of |
| Another concern is that we would like to keep | | | | that number, then all you have to do is join its |
| everything "in-house" and not let other people | | | | yearly membership. For less than 40 USD you can |
| know. | | | | reverse search as many phone numbers as you |
| So we need to have tools to help us to trace | | | | like for an entire year. This is much more cost |
| number free. Perhaps 15 years ago the only thing | | | | effective and discreet than hiring a private |
| that we could do is open up our local phone book | | | | investigator. |
| and ridiculously reverse search the number that | | | | |