My wife and I recently started receiving prank calls from a cell phone user. We have the number captured on our caller ID but have been unable to figure out who it is that's calling us. Not sure how to gt the information. If anyone has a surefire way to track the person down so I can notify the appropriate authorities we'd appreciate it.
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Call the customer service desk of your cell provider. They may be able to help you or at least stop the calls.\n\nOr try one of those phone number look up services on the internet. The free ones will at least tell you if it's from another cell (with provider) or from a land line. If it is from a cell, call their provider and make a complaint.\n\nAlternatively, you can go to your local police department and file a complaint. Depending on what kinds of calls you are getting, they could end up in court, which would be pretty sweet. This depends heavily on local statues regarding phone harassment and how serious the officer you talk to takes your complaint.
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If you can find them then Maybe a call might work. They are just like spam email, they don't want you to find them. Try the 'Do not call' center and report them. Or you could try jamming their fax line by calling it repeatedly
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First of all, don't delete your number. Be strong, let this weak punk know that you are not gonna be pushed around. Send him a text back...Stop sending me messages! Don't do it gently...end it like you need to end it. Be firm. See he is messing it up for everybody...so we need to get knee deep in his azz. And if that doesn't work....send me an email, and I will get him to stop myself. We need people working together to stop ignorant azz people. Yeah show the police the messages, there are laws now, and then call your provider and block that fool.
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I have never been in this situtaion before, but this is what I would do.  I would start recording his messages if I can.  Start a log of when he calls you, time etc.  I know this sounds like a lot of work, but you need this information to get a restraining order on him should it come to that.  I would also call my local police department and get advise.  I would let my boss know what is going on.
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first you have to answer the phone and see who it is - that is the only way to know who is calling.  you can call your local phone company and get instructions on how to block private callers.
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It should give some specific information if it is valid.  These would be... Name of missing, age, D.O.B., and a brief description of what they look like, and what clothes they were last seen wearing.  Perhaps some vital info on who they may be with.  The things to look for is this:  Look for a local police agency's number.  If it is there, you could easliy call it to verify if it is real.  If they aren't sure, forward the email to them.  That should be enough to let them look into it, and tell if it is a real alert, or another scam.  I received one of these last week about a young brown haired girl missing from somewhere that was a hoax.
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If you know who it is, tell the police. That is illegal.\n\nCheers!
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if he is in fact doing this you should go to your local police department and make a complaint....He is stalking you and thats illegal. there are programs like pc anywhere that would let him log into your computer when you are on it and see what you are doing. if you have windows xp, go to control panel, system and under the remote tab, make sure everything is UNCHECKED. You can text message from a computer to a cell phone, and make it look like it came from anyone as long as you logged into an im client under that persons name. I used to text message an old girlfriend from aol instant messenger to her T-mobil cell phone a while back. As for the cell phone if he has a compatable chip that was copied from yours I think it would be possable for him to make calls and have it look like you did. Maybe you should get a new cell phone?
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www.reversephonedirectory.com has a lot of options like search by name, address, etc. i found a lot of phone numbers. Or try Net Detective maybe. You can download it for free on some Torrent sites...
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Call customer service for your carrier. They should be able to tell where the calls are coming from. It would be helpful if you told us what the caller id says.
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I would play it safe and find a way to email them without disclosing much info on you. Maybe make a new email addy without much info in it, then after you get the info you want (depending on if it is a bad connection with this person) You could close the email site. I don't know how. Or if it ends up being legit and maybe he lost it, do whatever he needs done, but step up with much caution! It could be a bad lure still. Remember! He's a stranger. If you have any misgivings about it at all! Take the cd directly to the police! It could have bad connections to just about anything.\n\nI do care what happens. Let me know if you came out safe on this. K? God bless.
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Try The Ultimates.  There are a number of options to search, two of which area reverse phone lookups.  I tried looking up my cell phone number but it didn't appear.  Hope it helps anyway.
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Answer phone and ask, "Who is this ?"\n2 points for rat. Yay.\nCheese time.
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You need to call your carrier first, they can look it up and see who it is.  You need to document every time she calls to show that there is  definitely a pattern of this harrassment say for about a period of two weeks.  Then you need to make a report to the police so they can press charges against this perosn.  This advise was given to me by a sheriff's deputy when my son was getting harrassing messaging on his cell.  Needless, to say, it stopped.
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A friend of my secretary did something VERY funny:\n\nHe was on a train with a man who insisted on speaking very loudly on his cellphone. While on the phone, he spoke with his wife, his daughter, and his internet service provider. So, her friend began writing...first, he wrote down the man's wife's name. Then when he called his daughter, he wrote her name down. Then he called his Internet service provider, and in the course of the conversation, the man (loudly) divulged his name, home address, and screen name.\n\nSo a few days later, the man would have received a post card in the mail that said..."Your name is (blank), your wife's name is (blank), your daughter is (blank), and your AOL screen name is (blank). Next time be considerate of others while talking on your cell phone on the train. Have a nice day.
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I've tried to find this in for in the past from the phone companies, cell carries, etc without any luck.  Nor have I found any website.  But you could always call the number and ask...but you've already thought of and rejected that idea I imagine.
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You can contact you local police department, however, this type of fraud is on the rise and it is very hard to trace. The best thing to do is not give the person ANY of your information.