Phone number tracing is the art of finding out a phone owner from a phone number. It’s also called a reverse phone lookup. Phone Number Tracing is NOT the collection of phone or text message records. That is illegal in most situations (unless you’re a government agency or have a subpoena in a legal circumstance). Recording Phone Calls is also illegal in many situations without proper subpoena; however rules vary from state to state.
There are different ways to trace a phone owner, and many of them are free. Some of them involve simple do-it-yourself searching. The Internet is an amazingly useful source for this. Here is an extremely helpful free cell phone tracing services. If you’ve exhausted your free search options, then you can use a premium reverse phone service to track down owners of cell phones, unlisted or hard-to-find numbers.
Finding the owner of a cell phone number can be particularly challenging. This is because cell phone numbers are not public record, so they aren’t listed in any sort of central directory like the White Pages or the Yellow Pages. If you don't know how to trace cell numbers it can be time consuming to learn and often is best left to premium reverse phone services.
Emergency Cell Phone Tracking is possible in emergency situations and has saved numerous lives. It can be used if someone is lost in the wilderness, a dire 911 call gets disconnected, or a child is abducted with a cell phone in possession. Emergency geo-location of a cell phone uses GPS or Global Positioning Systems. More information on GPS Cell Phone Trackingcan be found here.
Professional Cell Phone Tracers
If you need to trace a phone owner and the circumstance is dire, you can always consider hiring a private investigator (also called a PI). Investigator services vary dramatically so you should always research them before you decide. Here is a tutorial we’ve compiled of what you NEED TO KNOW when hiring a private investigator
