Are any of the phone or reverse phone number sites really free?

[Paper Roses]

I seen to be getting a lot of calls on my cell phone lately. Some may be important but most are telemarketers.

My family talked me into going 'all cell', I dropped my land line but still have my old phone number. Unless the caller is in my phone book, I try to look up the number on-line. Every site I go to tells me that I have to sign up.

Some want $$ directly, others give me facts like it is a 'cell call or land line'. Nothing else. After that, it is something like .95 cents for further info.I can't seem to find a site that will give me the info I need.

The 'free' is not free on any of the sites I can find. Do all of them charge a fee for direct information? Am I looking for something that does not exist?
Thanks for any info.
PR

[monmouth3]

1. I saw an ad yesterday for "MyCleanPC"..FREE. Yeah, for $19.99 it's free. Even the games on

Facebook are not free. Ridiculous...

[rustydog]

2. intellius and ruscammer

of course you get invites to subscribe, but they do tell you if it is a suspected scam

[kas125]

3. When I get a call on my cell from

someone I don't know, I google the number and always find out who it is. There are lots of sites where people report who has called them and why. The last one was the "prophet" Manasseh Jordan, lol.

[snooper2]

4. dipping national database for TN information costs money

FYI

Everytime a carrier does a dip it costs money, fractions of a penny but mulitiple that times billions, that is how Nuestar gets paid. Wow, twice today that company came up

[pnwmom]

5. Another option is just to google the phone number itself. In many of these scams,

the numbers have already been reported and you can see what other people have said.

Concerning those sites, some of the data on some of the subjects is free. I use whitepages.com when I need to find a forgotten address or phone number, but they mix in the free info with other listings that aren't free, so you might have to look through a few listings on a particular person's data to find the basic one that's free.

[Tikki]

6. We had an unlisted land line number for decades...when we dropped the land line and went

all cellular someone posted the land line number on the internets...of course it was disconnected...ha!
I wonder if someone else got that land line number, later?


The Tikkis

[MADem]

7. What are you looking for? Phone numbers?

800 notes is a good site to look up scammers, spammers and telemarketers. http://800notes.com/

If you're looking for someone's number, I find the white pages works best... http://www.whitepages.com/

[Paper Roses]

8. Thanks for the links. This is what I need.

I Google #'s if I am near the computer. Always hit one of those sites that tell me the area code from which the call was made. Then comes the request for $$$. Maybe one of your #'s will
allow me to find the info I need before wasting a call.

[MADem]

9. Glad I can help--things were a bit simpler back in the days of Ma Bell and the phone book! nt