Don't you hate it when you miss a call and you don't know who called? If no one left a message for you and you don't recognize the phone number, you may be left wondering who was trying to get in touch with you. In all actuality, it can very easily start eating at you when you don't know. People don't know that many times when a phone number shows up on your caller ID, it's a cell phone number calling you.

After just ignoring the calls for a week or so, I finally gave in and picked up. It turned out it was a company from another country-or so they claimed on the pre-recorded message, trying to sell me prescription drugs without a prescription. My first thought immediately was that there was no way in the world this was legal. It's not, by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm sure you're familiar with the Do Not Call Registry that our federal government helped establish a few years ago. It was established to help deter unsolicited telephone calls from people just like those who were calling me offering me medications. Unfortunately, it didn't take long before companies and others quickly found a loop hole in the entire process. If they call you from an unregistered cell phone, they can call you, and they will. Trust me, it started to creep me out.

Now that you're aware of the fact that you deserve to get the data you require to feel better and know who is calling you, you can start making big changes in your life. Now you'll know who is calling and you can work towards getting them to stop.

That's right, you can find out who's calling you by accessing these expansive databases that were once CIA eyes only bits of data. Now you can find out who is calling and make them stop.

When you've got problems with getting calls you don't want, you can use the government's reverse cell lookup to find out who is calling.