Ever want to know who that pesky number that calls you in the middle of the night is, or repeatedly wastes your minutes by leaving long unwanted sales call ramblings on your cell? Try looking it up on the internet... Great idea until you find out that nothing is FREE when it comes to the search "FREE reverse phone look up". Ah yes Virgina there might be a Santa Clause but if you want his number you are going to have to pay for it.
All searches get you to what sounds like the right place, ReversePhoneDetective.com, the place that advertises "Find out the owner of any cell phone or unlisted number. Results include name, current address, carrier, and location details when available. Your search is 100% confidential." BUT is this a true advertisement or just another one of those empty promises sucking in money from suckers like me on the world wide web of deception? You guessed it, it might as well have been a chain letter to a bank account in Zimbabwe. So I contributed my "guaranteed 100% money back" donation of $39.95 for a Premium Membership which touts "Full Phone Report for whatever number you are searching for Unlimited Reverse Phone Lookups for 1 Year (Best Value!)".
Sounds good until they get your money and you find out that to really find out the information you just coughed up you need to become a "Licensed Investigator" which will only cost you $79.95 for what must be the Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter option because you only get half the story you want "Reverse Phone Search" (hey wait a minute you think isn't that what I paid $39.95 for already and got Butkus?) OR you can pay $129.95 more to be the Columbo "Reverse Phone Search National Background Check".
Then just try getting your money back. Oh well another learned lesson of the www.Or as I like to call it the wonderful world of wackos. Next time someone calls you in the middle of the night or wasts your minutes just forget about them. Take a BITE out of CRIME and leave the detective work to those who aren't ripp-off artists like ReversePhoneDetective.com.
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