Reverse Phone Search Service

[TXShine]

Anyone use or know anything about reverse phone look up? There seems to be a lot of scam alerts on these types of web sites as well as review sites that look phoney to me. Are there any of these sites that are reputable and contain complete and accurate information?Any information on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

[AeroCleanse]

Re: Reverse Phone Search Service

For the US you can use Switchboard.com

[roushstage2]

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I usually use the one at White Pages. None of them give you full information unless it is a business. Reverse look up is kind of a hit or miss.

[PorscheGuy997]

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Yeah, I had to do quite a bit of reverse phone lookup with the watch scam. The best method was searching through the white pages. Sometimes, the town has a phone directory that will list numbers.

Whatever you do, do not use Intelius. It is a scam. Found that out the hard way after they kept charging my bank for $20 increments after the service had been completed.

[TXShine]

Re: Reverse Phone Search Service

Yeah, I had to do quite a bit of reverse phone lookup with the watch scam. The best method was searching through the white pages. Sometimes, the town has a phone directory that will list numbers.

Whatever you do, do not use Intelius. It is a scam. Found that out the hard way after they kept charging my bank for $20 increments after the service had been completed.

Great..... I used them for one number.... I guess I better watch my credit card bill!

[PorscheGuy997]

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I had to call 5/3 and they removed the charges. It's a good thing I check my bank account once a week!

Unfortunately, I had to get a new card because they charged me $19.99 once every two weeks or so.

Good Luck!

[TXShine]

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Well I went ahead and changed my credit card account number, it's something I do ever so often anyway. It's just like reporting them lost or stolen and all the account info and any type of earnings go over to a new account number. (the old number is just no longer valid)

It's been awhile since I changed the one I used for Intelius, so I went ahead and called the credit card company and explained the situation and they just issued a new number. So if they try to bill my card again it won't work.

Thanks for the heads up on them Chris.

[BlueZero]

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Well I went ahead and changed my credit card account number, it's something I do ever so often anyway.

That's probably a good idea. You got me thinking. I get new cards when the old one expires but it's probably the same number. That's a lot of people and places that have my number.

[PorscheGuy997]

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Even if it is the same number, the CVV and expiration dates have been changed.

Intelius seemed like an honest service until the additional charges started appearing. Oh well...live and learn...

[IH82W8]

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We used this to look up a phone number in one of my criminal justice courses. Apparently this kid in one of my classes went to FL for baseball over Spring break, and took down this guy's number thinking he was going to get a potential job. Well it wound up that this stranger that my classmate gave his number to has his own blog - a gay, *** one.

[TXShine]

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That's probably a good idea. You got me thinking. I get new cards when the old one expires but it's probably the same number. That's a lot of people and places that have my number.

Exactly.... and my credit card co. has told me before that they are happy to do it. Especially if I feel the number has been compromised in anyway, even like what happened today.

Even if it is the same number, the CVV and expiration dates have been changed.

Intelius seemed like an honest service until the additional charges started appearing. Oh well...live and learn...

Even so, it makes me feel better knowing they don't have a good number.

I thank you again for letting me know the trouble you had with this company. I wouldn't want to deal with trying to get back some unauthorized charges.