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Tracing Private Numbers

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  • #32
    failsafe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 569 ✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭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 :)


  • #34
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #35
    FranknFurter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭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 :)

    b


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