You find yourself smiling as you sit down at your desk, turn on your computer and open the Internet. You almost, almost, laugh as you visit a reputable site, type in a number you despise and wait for results. This individual has been plaguing you with fax after fax, wasting your time and patience with obvious attempts for your personal information. It's a scam, and a poor one, and you finally think you can do something about. So you stare at the screen, watch the page change and...
Discover that there are no results to see.
The site that so many claimed to be flawless has just failed you. The number cannot be retrieved.
Suddenly you're not smiling anymore.
The truth is this: there are limits to even the best sites. You will not always be able to find the number you want (which will keep you from reporting it as you want) and you will often find that there is no way to track the subscriber.
Why? Because the number simply isn't listed.
A directory only works when individuals make their numbers public. And, of course, this includes faxes. If it is a private line, it cannot be added to any sort of open record. This is illegal. You will not be able to access any numbers that have been taken from the listing, and you will have to look for them elsewhere. Usually by posting to sites that allow you to ask others to identify the number if they recognize it.
Naturally, this is not the most reliable of methods.
Still, fax numbers are not guaranteed to be within any reverse phone lookup directory. And, if they happen to belong to those trying to solicit you, chances are: you will not be able to track them. You must understand this to keep yourself from going to page after page, trying to find the answer.
Even sites like reverse phone number are not infallible. They have their requirements and, if those are not met, nothing can be done. Know this so there will be no surprises if the fax cannot be traced.
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