On the internet there are many services that claim they can provide legitimate, useful and accurate free cell phone reverse lookups. These services cannot do what they claim or intended to do. Free phone lookup services might be able to acquire information using public data bases about the owners of land lines buy mobile database but cell telephone numbers are registered with their service provider and are not available in public date bases. Further, these cellphone numbers are most often no listed in the phone book or in the white pages. Free cell phone reverse lookups are often a waste of time for a couple of reasons. There is no free public directory for them to access information from, if they do have information they can give the user inaccurate or out of date listings and addresses and even if they could provide information they would be a threat to consumer privacy.