In the earliest days of my internet experience, I remember being able to do a web search for a phone number and sometimes actually find something useful. That said, this niche has long been dominated by some of the fakest, most scammy, bullshit sites on the web. From calling themselves “free” when they are not, to the fake “searching”, “sifting through results”, “correlating records” wait screens that are much like the deceptive, manipulative, and nontransparent airline industry, to the mentally manipulative exclamation point in the red warning triangle to tease you that there might be criminal records.
Why is this area of the web so scammy?
Who made it like this?
Has anyone tried to fix it?
Is there a any site out there that can actually do a reverse lookup and isn’t a cesspool of popups, pay gates, and fake loading screens?
I heard of a similar situation. The person was being garnished but the rate of repayment was pretty slow because they were broke, not coincidentally. When you’re broke, you can’t pay your insurance but in most of the US and many other countries, you need a car to participate in daily life. It sounds perversely circular to me and it’s not getting the innocent party refunded in any reasonable amount of time either. Maybe drivers should have to be bonded like electricians or plumbers.
That’s called insurance, and it’s law to have it