You'll be wanting to do a backwards phone number lookup, whenever you need to find out who's just phoned you.

It's been fairly easy to do this for landline numbers as the public domain holds these numbers - that means that you and me can get to them in one way or another. Sure it's often easier to use a paid service, but you can get the information you need for free.

But what if the number that called you isn't published or is unlisted? What do you do then?

As you can imagine to lookup all of the data and trace details on every unlisted phone number or cell phone number is actually a large job.

This information has become available for a small cost. The information is online on one of the few good reverse phone directories (and several not so good ones)

There is a small fee to join these services but they let you do an unlimited number of backwards / reverse phone number searches. You offset the small fee by charging a small amount to trace cell phone numbers and unlisted landline numbers for your friends, family and colleagues.

After you join a reverse phone directory you can backwards search as many cell phone or unlisted numbers as you like. Simply input the number into a simple form and within a few seconds the backwards phone search directory pulls out the information it has on the number in question.

I'm sure you'll agree that for those facing cheating spouses or intimidating phone calls from unknown numbers this is a real benefit.

So don't put it off and carry out your own backwards phone search today. Reverse look up that number and put your mind at rest.