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Hundreds of thousands of phone numbers are activated and deactivated daily. Google takes time (sometimes months) to index websites it crawls — by then, the data is often old. So you may end up finding outdated reverse phone lookup information. Telemarketers, scammers, and criminals change their numbers often for a reason.

Our data feeds directly from Telco provider networks for the most accurate and current reverse phone lookup and search information available. Also, many Google results come from complaint databases (people reporting a number). That cannot be relied upon as definitive because many telemarketers use Caller ID spoofing to make their Caller ID appear to be from a different or legitimate source.

Good information on reverse phone lookups is just NOT available for free — but StumpTheMonkey.com offers the best reverse phone lookup at an affordable price with No-Hit/No-Fee pricing.

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Free websites rely on ad sales to fuel their lookup/search business. Since results are “free,” it does not matter whether you get what you were looking for or not — the lookup is free anyway. Their stump rate is very high because they do not have the time, revenue, or resources to keep their data continuously current. Most do not offer strong reverse phone lookups for cell phones, VoIP, or business lines at all.

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Unlimited plans are usually offered because the stump rate is so high. Some services have stump rates over 60% (only 4 out of 10 reverse phone lookups/searches yield results). Stumps are especially high with reverse phone lookups for cell phone numbers, VoIP lines, and businesses. With statistics like that, they have to offer unlimited plans so customers don’t keep asking for refunds. The pitch becomes “just search a different number” — but at the end of the day, you still don’t get the info you came for.

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Many services give you a general location and then charge for name/address. Location is already encoded into the phone number: the area code gives a general region (or where it was issued) and the exchange narrows the geography further. That info is often useless and already available for free.

Our service goes out to telephone companies to perform the best reverse phone lookup in real-time — so you get current data (including subscriber name) as part of the lookup. We charge because telephone companies charge us for the data, and because we maintain the best hit-rate available. We also have a No-Hit/No-Fee/No Questions Asked policy: if you do not get a name, we credit your account for the search.