How Much Should you Pay for Reverse Cell Phone Lookup?
March 16, 2010 by admin
Filed under Cell Phone Lookup
When we use new technologies and services, very often we worry about their cost. It has become sort of a law that each new service is very expensive, and some of us just refuse to use it until the cost goes down.
The same thing can be said of almost any new service involving cell phones, which naturally includes reverse cell phone lookup service. Reverse cell phone lookup enables us to look up just about any cell phone or regular number and discover who owns it.
So how much should you as a consumer pay for such a service?
Well if you do not need reverse cell phone lookup then naturally you should pay $0. But remember that the cost of anything that is for sale is not determined by its real value but rather on how much are people willing to pay for it.
However, try and compare reverse cell phone lookup with its much older sister, the standard directory assistance service. Today a call to the directory assistance is so low cost that we do not even notice it on our monthly phone bills. It was not always so, as little as 15 years ago such a call would be much more expensive.
However, with the reduction in prices, these days very few of us bothers using the old phone books anymore (I buy them each year just because of Yellow pages). Directory service is cheap (just a few cents per call), fast and saves you from the sometimes long and difficult phone book search. In addition, the internet phone number search is free and also very fast. So compared with these two services how much should we pay for reverse cell phone lookup?
The answer to these questions is that usually obtaining the information you need by using the cell phone number should be free or at least very cheap. Nevertheless, sometimes just as with regular phone number request, you can experience difficulties finding it. Many cell phone numbers just as well as regular landline phones are unlisted.
There is no way that you can just lookup these numbers and get the info you need. Pay service however, can in some cases discover the unlisted numbers for by using reverse cell phone lookup. Consider them your own private detective, only much cheaper. In most cases, this will require deep investigation, and that costs money. Anything not easily obtainable costs money.
In most cases, it is not worth it to track down the caller, unless you believe that an owner of that phone can be in some kind of a danger. You should report threatening and similar kind of calls to your local authorities, they have other, much better ways to track down these kinds of calls.
So finally, if you are a regular phone user, low cost or even free reverse cell phone lookup can provide useful information. Especially if you are a parent and you want to know who is calling your kid. For just a few bucks, you can check it up and keep your family safe.
Nikola Govorko
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dishnetwork programming offer scam ?
I was contacted by an agent introduced him self as calling from dishnetwork to offer me programming package. I didn’t accept the offer; I told him I am already having programming with dishnetwork.
He insisted that he can even save me more with my current programming. He asked me to provide my dishnetwork account number to be able to lookup my account. I gave it to him, he then asked me to call me back in 5 minutes to tell me what exactly how much saving I will get compared to my current account. Five minutes later, he called me back, he has all my programming info already, he reiterated his offer by which I’ll get free DVR, free HD programming for 6 months, free installations and with the same programming package I already have, I’ll be saving five dollars of my monthly bill.
I accepted the offer, sounds good so far! He told me the only way to get the offer is to set it up a new account, when I hesitated since I don’t know the consequences on my existing programming or if there will be any interruption, he mentioned that nothing to worry and everything will go smooth.
I said OK, then he asked for a credit card info, I questioned him on that, he said for setting up an account, they will typically put one ($1) on hold and will returned back within 1 business day. Since I remember that this was the procedure when I first setup my account, then I gave it to him.
After he processed the transaction, he asked for the account setup information, I started giving him name, address, ..etc. He told me that to be able to get that offer; I should provide him with another name, since this offer is not valid for existing dishnetwork customers! WHATTTTT!
I told him that you already know that I am a dishnetwork customer, you contacted me from that prospective, you managed to pull my existing programming, and then you know that I am a customer, what a waste of time. He asked me to provide a friend’s name or any other person’s name and SSN, etc. I decided to finish the call and told him that I’m not interested. He told me to wait; he’ll try get around this. I asked how, he quickly said, not to worry, and with a lowered voice I think he said something like he’ll punch a name for a friend of him and will switch it later to my name. I said I don’t understand what are you saying. He interrupted me by saying congratulations! The application went through; you’ll be contacted by dish network within few days for installations. (I wasn’t comfortable with that but since I didn’t give any more information at that point, waited to see)
Couple of days later, I noticed a transaction made from my bank account by the amount of $9.98 by "VMC satellite (not dishnetwork)" and hasn’t returned back. It’s been a week and nobody called. I called that representative on the phone he gave me. Looked like was a cell phone or so, he answered the phone "same person". I was angry and, he asked for name to look my account up. Then he said, there’s no way to look me up since I’m already a dishnetwork customer and not on their system, therefore he can’t do anything for me. (At that point I remembered the friend’s name thing that he whispered). I told him I don’t know what you did, but I need my money. He said the best is to wait few days and the transaction should be reversed back automatically.
I called VMC satellite; they don’t know a person with that name. I’m confused, a transaction was made by that company, then this person should be affiliated with them some how. He also provided a valid phone number to contact him, if it was a scam, I don’t think he’ll be providing any true information.
There’s more than money that I’m concerned about, it’s how my personal information and SSN, which was collected by him are used! Should I call the police to locate that person? dishnetwork, or what is the proper place to complain at since I know at least the phone number of the person (assuming his name is incorrect) or what should I do?
I requested an investigation from my bank. They provided the phone number of the merchant as:
703 636 4600
Do a google search and you’ll be surprised. I’m just wondering how thos guys are still on business after all these reports about them?
I’d call DishNetwork’s main number (it’s on their website or your bill) and report this criminal to them.
For future reference, even though the installers are local, all programming and billing comes from Dish Network corporate – NOT THE INSTALLER. The installer can’t (legally) do anything about your programming packages.
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