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Readers Respond: What's your favorite way to do a reverse phone lookup on the Web?

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Do you have a tried and true method you like to use for reverse phone lookups? Share your discoveries with the About.com community. Share your discoveries!

A true free number lookup!

On your smart phone download Mr.Number call block, it not only lets you block for free but looks up txts and callers for free (at the same time they call you) so you know if you should answer or not. :)
—Guest CLC

Stump The Monkey, best reverse look-up!

An impressive reverse look-up is Stump The Monkey (www.stumpthemonkey). They use over 20 different resources to gather information so the success rate is very high. Best thing is, where other resources require payment, with Stump the Monkey, if you don't get a hit, then you don't pay!!
—Sapphiresol

Don't Pay For Anything - Read FIRST!

Folks, if you read the article, you'll notice the author does not suggest you pay for anything. She gives you free suggestions and even states that you should not pay for anything. So if you are ending up on a page that tells you to pay for something, it's your own fault. Read the article and use common sense!
—Guest Bill

Not Free

$1.99 per search at White Pages is definitely NOT free. Nor are any of the other "free" reverse look-up's. This article was NOT helpful. I just want to know whose number this is that appeared on my credit report. ::shrugs::
—Guest Not Sold

None of them are free

I tried a dozen sites even ones that are linked to Google - they're all NOT FREE
—Guest daidai

What's your favorite way to do a reverse

I think this "Google doesn't do it anymore" is a lie. All of the socalled "free" services want $$$ to give you what Google used to give you for free.
—Guest Dave Warkentine

It's NOT Free

Like all other scams on the internet, it's not free. You will be required to pay to see the results so I suppose the "search" was free but the "results" results are not. "Welcome the internet, driven by greed and scams".
—Guest FreeNOT

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