Suspect your girlfriend is cheating on you? Looking to spot a mole at your company? Thanks to an underground service on the web, you can get access to anyone’s cell phone or land line call records.

Seem like a scam? Unfortunately, it’s not. The FBI ordered a list from locatecell.com, and it worked! $160 and 3 hours later, the FBI had a call list log that matched one of their agents.

So that’s the price of someone’s privacy? Only $130? Sure is cheaper than a than hiring an investigator to find out if your girl / wife is cheating on you.

How do they obtain the records? One of the most common methods for obtaining cell phone records is “pretexting.” Pretexting is when a data broker pretends to be a phone’s owner and dupes the phone company into providing the information.

It is currently not illegal to pretext for phone records. However, in July the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission seeking an end to the sale of telephone records.

Until then I’m sticking to pigeon courier to send my mistress notes.