Most of you must have heard of a phone directory, at some point of time in your lives. But what is a reverse phone directory? How does it help someone?
Well, a reverse phone directory is something that does exactly the reverse of what a normal directory does. While a directory would allow you to look up the contact details and telephone number of a person whose name you know, a reverse phone directory allows you to key in the number in order to furnish key details about a person.
But why is this needed, the inquisitive minds might be tempted to ask. If someone is troubling you with blank calls and you desperately want to put an end to this, what better option than this kind of technology? In the same manner, if there is a teenage girl in your house and someone is trying to cause trouble by giving blank calls every night, such a directory would be a more than handy tool to have.
Not only will you be able to get the name of the person, but will also be able to gather additional details like address, alternative phone numbers (in most cases, a land phone) etc. There are so many companies in this business of selling a reverse phone directory. All that you need to do is to find out who would suit your budget and place an order accordingly.
A great deal of the time, we just store numbers in a hurry in our mobile phone. While going through our calling list at a later date, we discover that we just have the number and no name matching that particular number. In cases like these too, a reverse phone directory would be a really useful asset to have in our repertoire.
And then finally, there are also strict parents who use a reverse phone directory to find out who their daughters are talking to all the time. Also, some companies use a reverse phone directory to find out details about clients who default of payments. In the same manner, credit card companies might use a reverse phone directory to identify a person who has borrowed money on loans and tends to default month on month.
However, as usual, there is a small catch. Most of the times, you would only be able to get the details that you want only if the number that you own happens to be a land line number, that too, one that is listed with the national phone exchange. Otherwise, things could get a little bit complicated.