Tuesday 22 July 2014

Stop Harassing Phone Calls From Random Callers

By Paulette Mason


If one owns a land line or a cell phone, then he most likely experienced having a random annoying call from a person that he does not know. Now these may be some pranks that kids would usually play on random people or these could even be threats from unknown people. So if one would want these to stop, then here are some ways to stop harassing phone calls from random callers.

Now it is very common for people to receive calls from random kids who would just want to play a joke on them. Of course when this happens, one does not have a solid ground to file for a police case but something can still be done as these kinds of occurrences are rather annoying. What one can do is that he can just simply block the number so that it will not call again.

However, if the pranks become very frequent, then one can actually file a complaint to the phone company. Now the phone company would ask the phone owner to make a list of all the prank calls that he got in over a week. What the telecom providers can do is that they can send warnings to these prank callers.

Now there are also callers that are actually quite scary and are actually potentially dangerous. Now during these types of situations, one may already file for a police case. However, one has to make sure that he has enough evidence or proof that the caller is actually a potential threat.

Now when one would receive this kind of call, he has to first observe how the caller talks. If the caller is shouting a lot and using a lot of swear words, then one may report to the police. More so if the caller would threaten to actually harm the person who is on the other end.

Now in this type of situation, what the police will do is that they would to track down where exactly the call came from would be to set a trap. The police would bug the phone line so that they will be able to trace the exact location of where the caller came from. They will ask the phone owners to jot down each weird call that comes in a span of one to two weeks before they take action.

Now there are actually some very effective ways to be able to prevent these harassing calls from coming through. Now the best way would be to of course never give out numbers. One has to make sure that his number is not shown anywhere public otherwise he will receive a lot of calls.

Of course there are those who would want to play it even safer. If one would want to play very safe, he can actually block off his number even when he makes an outgoing call. So for example, if his friend would receive his call, his friend will not see the number but will see the words unknown number instead.




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