You would hardly believe it but over 50,000 people a day now use a reverse telephone directory service in the US alone.
Thanks to the growing number of these services that are appearing all over the internet, that number is set to grow as well.
So what makes a reverse telephone directory such a popular service? Well, there are literally dozens of reasons why someone might need to find a callers details from a phone number.
For example, you might be worried who is calling your partner (or just as worried about who they are calling).
You may be a concerned parent worried about who your teenage daughter is calling late at night, or perhaps you are being plagued by crank callers who call you and then just hang up.
Worse still, you may be the target of some unscrupulous telemarketing companies that refuse to remove your number from their databases and keep flooding you with calls for 'unbelievable' offers! In any case, whatever their reasons for wanting to use a reverse telephone directory, everyone wants to use one that is quick and accurate.
There's no use picking a service and spending ages entering your details only to find that the number isn't in their database.
Or worse, you could spend a lot of time browsing through some of the free sites trying to navigate past endless advertisements and pop-ups only to discover that they don't really provide any kind of service at all.
How frustrating is that? No, the best way to search for a callers details based on their number is to use a paid for reverse telephone directory service.
Their databases are bigger and more accurate than the free services, and their websites are much simpler to use and offer more powerful search options.
Best of all they are completely confidential so no one has any idea that you have been searching for their details.
It may cost a small fee but the time and hassle saved will be well worth it.