Tuesday, July 22, 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 when the callers get to be a little bit more serious than playful, then the police would probably have to come in. First, one should file a police report to the police station about disturbing calls. However, one cannot file just anyhow as one has to first prove to the police that the caller is actually dangerous.

One thing to look out for would be the tone of voice of the caller. If the caller is shouting or spouting a lot of obscenities, then this would be grounds for a police case already. Of course if the caller threatens to inflict harm to a person or any of his loved ones, then it is definitely time to call the police.

Now when one does this, the police will first have to set a trap so that they will be able to know where the caller is located. What the police will be doing is that they will be bugging the phone so that they will be able to find out where the number comes from. They will then ask the phone owner to monitor the activities from that person for two weeks before they would do something.

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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