Telephone number tracing.
bothered
Manchester UK
I don't even know if this is legal or not but,
My 17 yo son has recieved a very strange and threatening phone call. I have the number of the person who called and want to trace it to an address to see if it's somebody he knows who's messing about or more serious. Does anybody know of a web site that can trace it?
Thanks.
My 17 yo son has recieved a very strange and threatening phone call. I have the number of the person who called and want to trace it to an address to see if it's somebody he knows who's messing about or more serious. Does anybody know of a web site that can trace it?
Thanks.
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Doesn't work in the UK. You have to pay extra just for it to tell you the number of the person calling, nevermind their name or address.
I mean whilst they are calling or when it is ringing. 1471 is also useless if more than 1 person has rang.
It only costs a £1 a month. Its not that bad.
Call the police. Police have reverse indexes from phone numbers to addresses, and can obtain new number updates for those indexes and get such info for cell numbers. If phone is not a subscriber-prepaid cell phone or stolen cell phone with publicly purchased cards for phone time, police can do this quickly. I would also talk to your telephone company, in US phone calls can be flagged by number used to call a certain number with timestamps in phone company computers. Police can request such a log be inititated here in US, and phone companies will comply when they have reason to do so (reasonable legal justification, which should come from law enforcement).
Give them the phone number used, time of call as best as you can remember it, and best knowledge from your son of exact words used and what your son can rememebr of the voice and its tone and tenor (IE, was it sarcastic, deadly seriuous, high or low pitched, any accent, etc.). Police can prove call was made from telephone company records.
You could also possibly put a recorder that indicates recording on phone line, this can discourage callers making threats. Do this with police knowledge beforehand-- they might be able to do same at telecom company offices. Then you have evidence corroborated by phone company records.
The way we are told to handle threat calls here is to hang up. Our phones here have, and log, caller IDs. Lack of caller IDs typically results in a hangup or not even picking up the phone at my home, as policy. your phone company might be able to supply a phone number logger or arrange for same at their switching office and a legal police request for same typically gets compliance.
John D.