You are looking for a longtime lost friend and you don’t have his coordinates anymore. You can’t even find him on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. That’s when you come across an online company that “finds” everybody’s phone number, for $1! Not bad, you say, and give them your credit card number.
Little do you know that you will be silently charged, monthly, a much bigger amount. Once you catch them, they will justify the charges as a membership, saying you can access any other numbers, unlimited, anytime. However, by the time you have figured out where the charge comes from, you’ll probably have lost tens of dollars, maybe hundreds.
How to avoid: make sure you read the fine print and that there are no extra charges. Also, look for their information and reputation online, which should give you a very good idea of the quality of their service.