Tracing Private Numbers

Lux23

Is it possible to trace private numbers to your phone? I had an issue with someone texting me before Christmas but they stopped but now they seem to be ringing me twenty times a day.

Lux23

Lux23 wrote:

Is it possible to trace private numbers to your phone? I had an issue with someone texting me before Christmas but they stopped but now they seem to be ringing me twenty times a day.

I did some checking of this, and apparently the only way you can do it is if you get in contact with the police/phone company. Other than that it doesnt appear possible. I'll keep looking, mind.

Actually, if you get in contact with the police, they can trace the number for you (thats what I can gather)

Lux23

There is probably a privacy issue though. I guess I will just have to drop into the police station on the way home.

Kiera

If this isnt the first time this has happened to you why not change you number? You can get a new number for €10 plus €20 cred.

Lux23

I can't at the moment as I have alot of freelance work going at the moment so its not possible and I want to get this person sorted once and for all. She has a tendency to turn up when I go out aswell.

Miss Fluff

Call me duh, but I didn't realise you could send a text whilst witholding your number (and no, I'm not a crazy stalker type lol )

SeanPuddin

or call bar all private numbers, if your that way inclined

jsr

Kiera wrote:

If this isnt the first time this has happened to you why not change you number? You can get a new number for €10 plus €20 cred.

Why go through all the hassle of changing number and makin sure everyone knows you have changed it because of some nob. harassing calls should be stopped not ignored. Cops/phone co is the best way to go.

Miss Fluff

Miss Fluff wrote:

Call me duh, but I didn't realise you could send a text whilst witholding your number (and no, I'm not a crazy stalker type lol )

I had an issue with someone texting me before Christmas but they stopped but now they seem to be ringing me twenty times a day.

The txts stopped, but now its the calls. Yeah, it is possible to bar all annonymous phonecalls, I think you have to do it through your network operator.

Bluetonic

jsr wrote:

harassing calls should be stopped not ignored. Cops/phone co is the best way to go.

A whilstle is the best thing to use to be honest. Answer the phone and then use a 'refs' whistle, for example, to deafen the person on the other end of the phone.

Try it out. It's extremely effective.

~Leanne~

Before you even think of going to cops over this, you need to write down the dates and times of these calls. What happens when you receive them i.e do they hang up, linger on phone and say nothing etc. Have all this on paper and present it to the guarda and they are likely to take you more seriously. Remember they get this everyday of the week, you are not receiving threathening messages / calls so theres no point just going in and telling them face to face.
My friend had this problem with private numbers and was getting threathened, took guards a while to do anything!!
Hope you get it sorted.

If I ever get a prank phonecall, I usually leave my phone down beside me and do whatever it was I was doing. Sure, let the feckers waste their credit.

Femelade

Lux23 wrote:

She has a tendency to turn up when I go out aswell.

so you know who is doing it?
are you sure?
why not say it to her, ask her to stop or you will have to get the guards involved.

Lux23

I have just called the police and as I have made a complaint before they will confirm if it is defintely her number. I just have to go in to them. If so I fully intend to say it to her infront of other people when she is hanging around. The police won't do anything unless she is physically threatening me so I think making a show of her is the best thing I can do. I honestly don't care if anyone thinks it makes me look worse then her.

NewOxfordReview

SeanPuddin wrote:

or call bar all private numbers, if your that way inclined

Is this possible?

NewOxfordReview

NewOxfordReview wrote:

Is this possible?

Oddly enough i found this doing a google search:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-72929.html

NewOxfordReview

So no? It would be very useful if private-number-callers got a message something like "the Meteor customer you are calling does not accept calls from withheld numbers. Please unblock your number and try again" or something. That'd stop them pretty quickly.

masterK

I know Meteor have a security department where they know the origin of any call no matter what network/company. Obviously they won't give you the details without Police intervention, however they will probably block all calls from that source to you if you can supply them with dates and times of calls.

Yes please ring the Gards and waste their time with something so stupid.

Pighead

ronoc wrote:

Yes please ring the Gards and waste their time with something so stupid.

ronoc reminds Pighead of Father Jessop, that extremely annoying sarcastic priest in Father Ted. Almost everything the lad says is said with a spiteful put down or tinged with a crap form of sarcasm.
Pighead: Hey ya ronoc, hows life
ronoc: Oh life is just fantastic Pighead, I won the lotto last night, tonight i'm playing centre forward for Juventus against Arsenal and tomorrow i'm a judge in the Miss America competition.
Pighead: Really?
ronoc: duh, of course not, i'm miserable as usual.

I'm so glad I can't see Pigheads posts anymore

jonny68

Miss Fluff wrote:

Call me duh, but I didn't realise you could send a text whilst witholding your number (and no, I'm not a crazy stalker type lol )

your right you cant the number does actually show if you scroll down.

Hobart

jonny68 wrote:

your right you cant the number does actually show if you scroll down.

You can send anonymous texts. I suspect the OP has just deleted the ones she recieved (if they were not anonymous).

Kinetic^

I'd go to the gardai. if she's constantly ringing you and they prove it, surely she can be done for harrassment?

Caliden

call your provider with time and dates of a few calls, they should be able sort it for you without having to go to the gardai

Pal

How to deal with a pest caller;

• Answer the phone
• Do not speak ! don't even say hello !
• gently place the live phone in a drawer
• wait 10 minutes
• retrieve phone and hang up

they will get worried and stop ringing you

Pighead

ronoc wrote:

I'm so glad I can't see Pigheads posts anymore

For all you posters that don't speak sarcastic let Pighead translate for you

ronoc wrote:

I really wish I hadn't put Pighead on ignore and I really really miss him.:(

Galvia

There is some software in the USA that allows you to ID people who call you, noting their phone number. Not sure how it would work with exchanges in Ireland. Just a thought.

Some of the same software will also screen out specific numbers, not allowing them to call you in the future.;)

Angie

Bluetonic wrote:

A whilstle is the best thing to use to be honest. Answer the phone and then use a 'refs' whistle, for example, to deafen the person on the other end of the phone.

Try it out. It's extremely effective.

I used to get nuisance calls, until one day I used the Smoke Detector Alarm down the phone on them.;)

monkeyfudge

I used to get nuisance messages on my voicemail. Reported to the guards and they just laughed it off saying it was probably just kids messing... despite the fact that I'd kept several recordings of a grown mans voice threatening to 'cut me up'. They wouldn't even listen to the recordings.

I had to change my number instead.

Siogfinsceal

Most mobile providers will trace number for you but usually insist that you call police first so they know you are serious.

You can get a thing that tracks private numbers but im not sure how to get it - try the internet?

Also, how to you send one of these anonymous texts?

failsafe

Caliden wrote:

call your provider with time and dates of a few calls, they should be able sort it for you without having to go to the gardai

They have the info but it has to be done by the gardai for two reasons.

1. If you ring Vodafone and the person pranking you is Meteor, they won't have their details.
2. If the phone company do have the caller's info, it's against the law (Data protection act 1985) to give it out to anyone but the registered owner, but they can give all details to the gardaí, who can then give out whatever info they see fit to you, or make some sort of warning call to the pranker to scare them off.

Ruu_Old

Its been said before, so i'll say it again..airhorn in the ear when this person calls again, or something equally loud

Sam Vimes

Miss Fluff wrote:

Call me duh, but I didn't realise you could send a text whilst witholding your number (and no, I'm not a crazy stalker type lol )

you can't. this is the procedure if you're being prank called:

1. call the operator
2. they tell you to call the police
3. the police take all your details down on a form, then throw it in the bin as soon as you leave

if you're not being threatened they don't care.

Pal wrote:

How to deal with a pest caller;

• Answer the phone
• Do not speak ! don't even say hello !
• gently place the live phone in a drawer
• wait 10 minutes
• retrieve phone and hang up

they will get worried and stop ringing you

i have been prank called for two years. the type of idiot that does it doesn't give up easily. the best thing to do is change your number. failing that if you remember the number from when you were being texted or can get it somehow the network can block it from contacting you, even if its on private. i've been told that you can't block all private numbers but i was told that by meteor customer care so its probably not right

if you don't remember the number and don't want to change your number, i refer you to Pal's post. my personal preference was to scream like a skitzo on crack into the phone whenever there was no one else around or divert calls to the nearest domino's pizza for half an hour or so

FranknFurter

If she aint all that bright, try sending her back a message saying "The Vodafone customer you are trying to reach is no longer accecpting calls or messages from this number". or "The Vodafone number you are trying to reach no longer exists".
(you can send her message back using "forward to" (her number) with that line above added to the top),.........
(Just use vodafone meteor or O2)

Worked for me, Also "This text could not be delivered due to a report of nuisence activity from this number, Please contact your service provider immediately"

Hopefully stupid enough to fall for it. :P

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